The MATE Desktop Is Becoming Quite Usable On Wayland Via Mir

[AlanGriffiths]

So instead of one X.org display server we have two (Wayland and Mir) ?
What's the point of this, how can 2 be better than one in this case?
What about games, what about XWayland, is that like a third piece?

You are conflating protocols and servers. Maybe this helps:

Protocol	Display Server
X11	Xorg
Wayland	Mir
X11	Xwayland

Or this: Ok, so what *is* this Wayland thing, anyway?

[JPFSanders]

So instead of one X.org display server we have two (Wayland and Mir) ?
What's the point of this, how can 2 be better than one in this case?
What about games, what about XWayland, is that like a third piece?

MIR runs on top of wayland, what MIR is doing is allowing MATE to use wayland easily kind of like a wrapper.

[Danny3]

So instead of one X.org display server we have two (Wayland and Mir) ?
What's the point of this, how can 2 be better than one in this case?
What about games, what about XWayland, is that like a third piece?

[zoomblab]

Ok great. Now please do the same for Unity 8. It should be easy since it was written for mir, which even though different from wayland was similar, from the beggining. It looked such a promoshing environment, it is a shame canonical had to dump it.

[JPFSanders]

"It just works"

I've just read the article, now I have headache.

[starshipeleven]

Fixed title is

Mir Developer shows MATE running well on Mir/Wayland

[phoronix]

Phoronix: The MATE Desktop Is Becoming Quite Usable On Wayland Via Mir

The MATE desktop environment is becoming usable on Wayland thanks to its support being provided by the Mir display stack...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MATE-Usable-Wayland-Mir-Video