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[AlanGriffiths]

> helping to migrate Lomiri onto Mir

Clarification: Lomiri doesn't need to migrate onto Mir, just to the modern (Wayland based) versi...

[AlanGriffiths]

The basics are covered in the datasheet...

[AlanGriffiths]

That isn't available "out of the box" because Ubuntu Frame has no way to launch your Spotify/Youtube/whatever-only session. (It would be easy...

[AlanGriffiths]

Before Canonical stopped work on Unity8, Mir was a library used for multiple display servers: Unity8, mir_demo_server, mir_shell and mir_kiosk.
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[AlanGriffiths]

Corrections:
1. Mir is a Wayland implementation (and implements various Wayland extensions).
2. Mir is still a display server....

[AlanGriffiths]

The announcement by the Mir team is here:

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/mir-release-2-3-2/

[AlanGriffiths]

No it means they have plans for devices that shipped with Android and for devices like the PinePhone....

[AlanGriffiths]

Mir-kiosk can be used on desktop, but you'd need a bit of work to set the session up as you need it.



You would need to define...

[AlanGriffiths]

There's no full desktop environment based on Mir that is ready for non-geeks. MATE and Lomiri desktops based on Mir are both very much "in development"....

[AlanGriffiths]

The release notes are here: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/mir-2-0-0-release/17510/

[AlanGriffiths]

I guess the title "Canonical Is Using Mir To Bring Flutter To Wayland" served its purpose. But it is a tad misleading...

The article...

[AlanGriffiths]

The strength of FOSS is that a company stopping work on a project doesn't kill the project.

In this case, Canonical did stop contributing...

[AlanGriffiths]

I don't want to detract from the progress that has been made, but the main article seems to conflate what has been achieved with what is unfinished. The...

[AlanGriffiths]

I don't think Unity8 desktop will ever be, or should ever be, a priority for UBports. If you look at their goals (from https://ubports.com/foundation...

[AlanGriffiths]

That is a very strange definition of "proprietary".

Adding a Mir backend for Ozone, GTK3, or whatever is no different to adding...