MATE Developers Are Considering Mir-Over-Wayland

[phoronix]

Phoronix: MATE Developers Are Considering Mir-Over-Wayland

MATE developer Martin Wimpress has shared that they are talking to Mir developers about how Mir could be used as a Wayland compositor...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...-Possibilities

[labyrinth153]

Enjoy taking on the task of maintaining it then once Canonical drops the ball (again).

[oleid]

Um, 1st of April? Jokes aside, what's wrong with the weston-as-a-library work? Isn't that made for such cases?

[cl333r]

MATE is betting on Gnome 2 and Mir, a schoolboy would make better decisions imo.

[patstew]

Surely if the problem is limited developer resources, the answer is to use someone else's compositor, not to take on development of an entire graphics stack that's half abandoned?

[SpyroRyder]

Um, 1st of April? Jokes aside, what's wrong with the weston-as-a-library work? Isn't that made for such cases?

Correct me if i am wrong bit doesnt the Weston library still has the problem that theyd still have to make a good bit of it themselves?

[wagaf]

Surely if the problem is limited developer resources, the answer is to use someone else's compositor, not to take on development of an entire graphics stack that's half abandoned?

The answer requiring the smallest amount of initial work and maintenance would be to make a GNOME 3 theme that imitates GNOME 2 ?

[ssokolow]

The answer requiring the smallest amount of initial work and maintenance would be to make a GNOME 3 theme that imitates GNOME 2 ?

Wasn't it disagreement over exactly that point that resulted in both MATE and Cinnamon existing?

[jrch2k8]

the exact use of the phrase "Oh, GOD why?" apply perfectly here

[davidbepo]

i like how this sounds