Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-27 Thread Jonathan Riddell
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 01:27:36PM -0700, Jono Bacon wrote: 1. Wayland is pulled in from Debian and maintained in Ubuntu by the community and Kubuntu and other flavors can use that. This will require community participation. I guess that's what we'll have to do. Nobody in the

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-24 Thread Jono Bacon
In case anyone didn't see it, Thomas did some testing of other desktops running on XMir on Mir: * XFCE - https://plus.google.com/u/1/110095242873945299189/posts/93dAjSwbmch * LXDE - https://plus.google.com/u/1/110095242873945299189/posts/ZxfdAPrybtn * GNOME 3 -

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-20 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Tuesday, June 18, 2013 01:38:09 PM Dmitry Shachnev wrote: On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:28:49 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: I don't think there's anyone in the Kubuntu team with the skills to pick up on maintenance of the non-Mir display server stack [...] I think it is much easier to maintain

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-20 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Julien, On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 11:37:50PM +0200, Julien Lavergne wrote: 2013/6/18 Jeremy Bicha jbi...@ubuntu.com: On 18 June 2013 02:00, Aigars Mahinovs aigar...@gmail.com wrote: Based solely on comments from this thread, as far as I understand, both Ubuntu and KDE will maintain the

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-20 Thread Stephen Michael Kellat
On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 14:13:02 -0700 Steve Langasek steve.langa...@ubuntu.com wrote: Hi Julien, On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 11:37:50PM +0200, Julien Lavergne wrote: 2013/6/18 Jeremy Bicha jbi...@ubuntu.com: On 18 June 2013 02:00, Aigars Mahinovs aigar...@gmail.com wrote: Based solely on

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-19 Thread Benjamin Kerensa
On Jun 14, 2013 7:55 AM, Jonathan Riddell jridd...@ubuntu.com wrote: Here's a discussion I half started as part of vUDS. The switch to Mir in Ubuntu seems pretty risky for the existance of Kubuntu, I wonder if other flavours have the same probable problem. KWin dev has opinions on the

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-18 Thread Martin Pitt
Hey Jono, I just want to chime in with my impressions from various discussions and talks to clarify the emotional situation. FWIW, I do not have any opinion about which technology is better -- I know nothing about this stuff, just summarizing what I hear/read. Jono Bacon [2013-06-17 16:47

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-18 Thread Thomas Voß
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 6:52 AM, Robert Ancell robert.anc...@canonical.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Scott Kitterman ubu...@kitterman.com wrote: On Monday, June 17, 2013 09:52:49 PM Oliver Ries wrote: On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Scott Kitterman

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-18 Thread Aigars Mahinovs
On 18 June 2013 07:33, Scott Kitterman ubu...@kitterman.com wrote: - What's the time line? When , if we follow along with Ubuntu, would we expect to run with XMir instead of X and when would we expect to integrate with MIR natively? Based solely on comments from this thread, as far as I

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-18 Thread Matthias Klumpp
Hi! 2013/6/18 Steve Langasek steve.langa...@ubuntu.com: On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 05:13:33PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: I think Jonathon's post earlier today captures the core issue: On Monday, June 17, 2013 09:05:08 PM Jonathan Riddell wrote: [...] As long as Canonical declines to work

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-18 Thread Dmitry Shachnev
On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:28:49 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: I don't think there's anyone in the Kubuntu team with the skills to pick up on maintenance of the non-Mir display server stack [...] I think it is much easier to maintain Wayland stack in Ubuntu than port all DEs we support to Mir. As

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-18 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Di, 2013-06-18 at 01:34 +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote: 2013/6/18 Jono Bacon j...@ubuntu.com: I fully understand if you don't want to work on this problem, and I also fully understand if the KWin maintainer is uninterested in solving this problem and would prefer to focus on Wayland,

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-18 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Di, 2013-06-18 at 11:16 +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote: Hi! 2013/6/18 Steve Langasek steve.langa...@ubuntu.com: On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 05:13:33PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: I think Jonathon's post earlier today captures the core issue: On Monday, June 17, 2013 09:05:08 PM

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-18 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Tuesday, June 18, 2013 09:00:26 AM Aigars Mahinovs wrote: On 18 June 2013 07:33, Scott Kitterman ubu...@kitterman.com wrote: - What's the time line? When , if we follow along with Ubuntu, would we expect to run with XMir instead of X and when would we expect to integrate with MIR

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-18 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Tuesday, June 18, 2013 11:40:34 AM Oliver Grawert wrote: hi, On Di, 2013-06-18 at 01:34 +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote: 2013/6/18 Jono Bacon j...@ubuntu.com: I fully understand if you don't want to work on this problem, and I also fully understand if the KWin maintainer is

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-18 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Di, 2013-06-18 at 06:08 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: On Tuesday, June 18, 2013 09:00:26 AM Aigars Mahinovs wrote: On 18 June 2013 07:33, Scott Kitterman ubu...@kitterman.com wrote: - What's the time line? When , if we follow along with Ubuntu, would we expect to run with

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-18 Thread Oliver Grawert
likely won't read (you cannot be subscribed to every distribution's ML) does not help. Contacting the upstreams directly on their mailinglists (the KWin ML or the GNOME Mutter ML) is the step to do. well, this thread is called non-Unity *flavours* and Mir involving upstreams would be a secondary

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-18 Thread Matthias Klumpp
2013/6/18 Oliver Grawert o...@ubuntu.com: hi, On Di, 2013-06-18 at 11:16 +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote: Hi! 2013/6/18 Steve Langasek steve.langa...@ubuntu.com: On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 05:13:33PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: I think Jonathon's post earlier today captures the core issue:

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-18 Thread Scott Kitterman
Oliver Grawert o...@ubuntu.com wrote: hi, On Di, 2013-06-18 at 06:13 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: On Tuesday, June 18, 2013 11:40:34 AM Oliver Grawert wrote: as a member of this community that goes into his 9th year with Ubuntu and who who knows most of the participants in person, i must

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-18 Thread Michael Hall
On 06/18/2013 08:04 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote: Oliver Grawert o...@ubuntu.com wrote: hi, On Di, 2013-06-18 at 06:13 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: On Tuesday, June 18, 2013 11:40:34 AM Oliver Grawert wrote: as a member of this community that goes into his 9th year with Ubuntu and who who

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-18 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 18 June 2013 02:00, Aigars Mahinovs aigar...@gmail.com wrote: Based solely on comments from this thread, as far as I understand, both Ubuntu and KDE will maintain the ability to work with X for the foreseeable timeframe, so this more of a question on which happens first - Ubuntu stopping

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 01:38:09PM +0400, Dmitry Shachnev wrote: On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:28:49 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: I don't think there's anyone in the Kubuntu team with the skills to pick up on maintenance of the non-Mir display server stack [...] I think it is much easier to

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-18 Thread Scott Kitterman
ML) is the step to do. well, this thread is called non-Unity *flavours* and Mir involving upstreams would be a secondary step ... My comment was about the communication with Wayland . Speaking to Wayland developers doesn't make sense anymore, since Ubuntu is doing Mir now. i

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-18 Thread Julien Lavergne
2013/6/18 Jeremy Bicha jbi...@ubuntu.com: On 18 June 2013 02:00, Aigars Mahinovs aigar...@gmail.com wrote: Based solely on comments from this thread, as far as I understand, both Ubuntu and KDE will maintain the ability to work with X for the foreseeable timeframe, so this more of a question

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-18 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 12:45:18PM +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote: what bothers me in this thread is the attitude more than the topic, there is an offer for communication and it is declined with a foot stomping i don't talk to you because you didn't talk to me first attitude of ten year olds ...

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-18 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 07:08:35PM +0400, Dmitry Shachnev wrote: Thomas said that “In the final setup, Mir will come up early on in the boot process and act as system-level compositor” — I thought that would be managed by Upstart. But if that is wrong, things are even better :) Starting early

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-17 Thread Thomas Voß
On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 01:10:29PM -0700, Jono Bacon wrote: On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 5:56 AM, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: Primary focus for GNOME will be Wayland. There are a few things that Wayland does not support

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-17 Thread Jonathan Riddell
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 11:41:29AM -0400, Marc Deslauriers wrote: Do you have any more details, or opened bugs about the issues? An X one for example https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=xrr-ubuntu Jonathan -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-17 Thread Jonathan Riddell
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 07:33:05PM +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote: the above is the offer to participate in a platform for conversation about requirements, it is not like someone forces you to write patches or so ... The requirement for KDE (and presumably Gnome) is Wayland. KWin has been

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-17 Thread Jonathan Riddell
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 01:10:29PM -0700, Jono Bacon wrote: Quick question: do you think the GNOME project may be interested in exploring Mir as a display server to support. Gnome will have the same issues as KDE - unstable API and ABI and lack of manpower for a single distro. Jonathan

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-17 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 13-06-17 04:00 PM, Jonathan Riddell wrote: On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 11:41:29AM -0400, Marc Deslauriers wrote: Do you have any more details, or opened bugs about the issues? An X one for example https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=xrr-ubuntu I was looking for issues that were caused by

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-17 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Monday, June 17, 2013 04:22:41 PM Marc Deslauriers wrote: On 13-06-17 04:00 PM, Jonathan Riddell wrote: On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 11:41:29AM -0400, Marc Deslauriers wrote: Do you have any more details, or opened bugs about the issues? An X one for example

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-17 Thread Michael Hall
On 06/17/2013 05:13 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: On Monday, June 17, 2013 04:22:41 PM Marc Deslauriers wrote: On 13-06-17 04:00 PM, Jonathan Riddell wrote: On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 11:41:29AM -0400, Marc Deslauriers wrote: Do you have any more details, or opened bugs about the issues? An X one

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-17 Thread Timo Aaltonen
On 17.06.2013 23:00, Jonathan Riddell wrote: On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 11:41:29AM -0400, Marc Deslauriers wrote: Do you have any more details, or opened bugs about the issues? An X one for example https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=xrr-ubuntu That's simply a regression from upstream, and

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-17 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Monday, June 17, 2013 05:54:25 PM Michael Hall wrote: On 06/17/2013 05:13 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: On Monday, June 17, 2013 04:22:41 PM Marc Deslauriers wrote: On 13-06-17 04:00 PM, Jonathan Riddell wrote: On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 11:41:29AM -0400, Marc Deslauriers wrote: Do you have

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-17 Thread Jono Bacon
Hi Matthias, On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Matthias Klumpp matth...@tenstral.netwrote: 2013/6/18 Jono Bacon j...@ubuntu.com: I see this as a trade-off. Fair point. But you can not expect KDE or GNOME to suddenly jump on the Mir train. Supporting a new display server is pretty damn hard,

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-17 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 05:13:33PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: I think Jonathon's post earlier today captures the core issue: On Monday, June 17, 2013 09:05:08 PM Jonathan Riddell wrote: On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 08:01:16PM +0200, Thomas Voß wrote: Yup :) I think a good way forward is to

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-17 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Monday, June 17, 2013 05:32:56 PM Steve Langasek wrote: On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 05:13:33PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: I think Jonathon's post earlier today captures the core issue: On Monday, June 17, 2013 09:05:08 PM Jonathan Riddell wrote: On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 08:01:16PM

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-17 Thread Michael Hall
06/17/2013 08:37 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: On Monday, June 17, 2013 05:32:56 PM Steve Langasek wrote: On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 05:13:33PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: I think Jonathon's post earlier today captures the core issue: On Monday, June 17, 2013 09:05:08 PM Jonathan Riddell wrote:

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-17 Thread Oliver Ries
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Scott Kitterman ubu...@kitterman.comwrote: On Friday, June 14, 2013 11:09:25 AM Oliver Ries wrote: [...] in addition to that I just want to highlight, that Jono and I are working on creating a forum for all interested Mir stakeholders (e.g. flavors, but

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-17 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 13-06-17 11:01 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: Well to start with, we can all acknowledge that everybody just wants to build something better. And while we obviously have different ideas about what that means, we can still work together when it makes sense. There is room enough in our

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-17 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Tuesday, June 18, 2013 12:06:45 AM Marc Deslauriers wrote: On 13-06-17 11:01 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: Well to start with, we can all acknowledge that everybody just wants to build something better. And while we obviously have different ideas about what that means, we can still work

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-17 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Monday, June 17, 2013 09:52:49 PM Oliver Ries wrote: On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Scott Kitterman ubu...@kitterman.comwrote: On Friday, June 14, 2013 11:09:25 AM Oliver Ries wrote: [...] in addition to that I just want to highlight, that Jono and I are working on

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-17 Thread Matthias Klumpp
2013/6/18 Jono Bacon j...@ubuntu.com: On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Scott Kitterman ubu...@kitterman.com wrote: The issue isn't that Canonical engineers aren't willing to work with other people on integrating Mir, it's that because Mir is Ubuntu unique, has no stable API/ABI, conflicts

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-16 Thread Timo Aaltonen
On 14.06.2013 18:55, Scott Kitterman wrote: On Friday, June 14, 2013 11:50:05 PM Ma Xiaojun wrote: On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Scott Kitterman ubu...@kitterman.com wrote: Upstream kwin tells us they already see bug reports from Kubuntu users due to mesa changes to support Unity. I

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-16 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 12:38:27AM +0800, Ma Xiaojun wrote: On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 8:31 PM, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: As explained various times: GNOME OS is not about replacing distributions. It is providing a VM which can be used for developers as well as something which can be

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-16 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 01:10:29PM -0700, Jono Bacon wrote: On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 5:56 AM, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: Primary focus for GNOME will be Wayland. There are a few things that Wayland does not support that X did support. This will result in having to do things

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-15 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 11:47:43PM +0800, Ma Xiaojun wrote: GNOME, well, the future is GNOME OS, period. As explained various times: GNOME OS is not about replacing distributions. It is providing a VM which can be used for developers as well as something which can be used for testing. E.g. in a

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-15 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 02:51:29PM -0700, Jono Bacon wrote: I suspect X support for GNOME will be around for a while primarily so Red Hat can continue to serve their customers. We should definitely ensure the GNOME community are invited to the Mir discussions moving forward, as are the

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-15 Thread Jono Bacon
Hi Olav, On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 5:56 AM, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: Primary focus for GNOME will be Wayland. There are a few things that Wayland does not support that X did support. This will result in having to do things differently. See e.g. the various forms of 'deprecate' is

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-15 Thread Ma Xiaojun
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 8:31 PM, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: As explained various times: GNOME OS is not about replacing distributions. It is providing a VM which can be used for developers as well as something which can be used for testing. E.g. in a bugreport: Is it fixed in this

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-14 Thread Jonathan Riddell
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 05:16:11PM +0200, Thomas Voß wrote: User sessions then talk to this system-level Mir instance, including Mir itself. But to state this clearly, XMir will support the X session scenario on top of Mir. What about when we move to Wayland? Jonathan -- ubuntu-devel

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-14 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 13-06-14 11:21 AM, Jonathan Riddell wrote: On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 05:16:11PM +0200, Thomas Voß wrote: User sessions then talk to this system-level Mir instance, including Mir itself. But to state this clearly, XMir will support the X session scenario on top of Mir. What about when we

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-14 Thread Jonathan Riddell
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 05:25:29PM +0200, Thomas Voß wrote: On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Jonathan Riddell j...@jriddell.org wrote: On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 05:16:11PM +0200, Thomas Voß wrote: User sessions then talk to this system-level Mir instance, including Mir itself. But to state

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-14 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Friday, June 14, 2013 11:15:17 AM Marc Deslauriers wrote: On 13-06-14 11:04 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote: On Friday, June 14, 2013 03:54:32 PM Jonathan Riddell wrote: Here's a discussion I half started as part of vUDS. The switch to Mir in Ubuntu seems pretty risky for the existance of

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-14 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Friday, June 14, 2013 11:41:29 AM Marc Deslauriers wrote: On 13-06-14 11:33 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote: On Friday, June 14, 2013 11:15:17 AM Marc Deslauriers wrote: On 13-06-14 11:04 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote: On Friday, June 14, 2013 03:54:32 PM Jonathan Riddell wrote: Here's a

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-14 Thread Thomas Voß
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Jonathan Riddell j...@jriddell.org wrote: On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 05:25:29PM +0200, Thomas Voß wrote: On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Jonathan Riddell j...@jriddell.org wrote: On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 05:16:11PM +0200, Thomas Voß wrote: User sessions then

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-14 Thread Thomas Voß
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Jonathan Riddell j...@jriddell.org wrote: On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 05:16:11PM +0200, Thomas Voß wrote: User sessions then talk to this system-level Mir instance, including Mir itself. But to state this clearly, XMir will support the X session scenario on top of

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-14 Thread Thomas Voß
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 5:33 PM, Scott Kitterman ubu...@kitterman.com wrote: On Friday, June 14, 2013 11:15:17 AM Marc Deslauriers wrote: On 13-06-14 11:04 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote: On Friday, June 14, 2013 03:54:32 PM Jonathan Riddell wrote: Here's a discussion I half started as part of

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-14 Thread Ma Xiaojun
I don't think any DE/WM other than E17, GNOME, KDE can get Wayland support any time soon; probably never. Therefore, switching to Wayland can potentially break these DE/WM also; nothing specific about Mir. E17? Just asked Debian's pkg-e to pakcge E17 0.17; not a first class-citizen in

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-14 Thread Ma Xiaojun
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Scott Kitterman ubu...@kitterman.com wrote: Upstream kwin tells us they already see bug reports from Kubuntu users due to mesa changes to support Unity. I don't think it's just a new back end. I checked mesa source package the other day. It looks more like a

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-14 Thread Ma Xiaojun
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 11:55 PM, Scott Kitterman ubu...@kitterman.com wrote: As I mentioned, I'm relying on what upstream kwin has said. I know there have been times (quantal) when Ubuntu moving to a new mesa version in a manner that, from the perspective of our upstream, was overly

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-14 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Saturday, June 15, 2013 12:04:18 AM Ma Xiaojun wrote: On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 11:55 PM, Scott Kitterman ubu...@kitterman.com wrote: As I mentioned, I'm relying on what upstream kwin has said. I know there have been times (quantal) when Ubuntu moving to a new mesa version in a manner

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-14 Thread Jonathan Riddell
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 11:47:43PM +0800, Ma Xiaojun wrote: KDE, this one is interesting. The one even tries to support proprietary OS. The same also claim their CI has very limited distro coverage so they cannot support distro specific feature. Maybe we replace Kwin with something else then

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-14 Thread Thomas Voß
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Jonathan Riddell j...@jriddell.org wrote: On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 11:47:43PM +0800, Ma Xiaojun wrote: KDE, this one is interesting. The one even tries to support proprietary OS. The same also claim their CI has very limited distro coverage so they cannot

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-14 Thread Rick Spencer
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Scott Kitterman ubu...@kitterman.com wrote: Kubuntu has always relied on the infrastructure provided in the Ubuntu archive to build our KDE variant on top of. It's pretty obvious to me that, at some point, this will no longer be feasible. The Kubuntu team

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-14 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Fr, 2013-06-14 at 17:27 +0100, Jonathan Riddell wrote: On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 11:47:43PM +0800, Ma Xiaojun wrote: KDE, this one is interesting. The one even tries to support proprietary OS. The same also claim their CI has very limited distro coverage so they cannot support distro

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-14 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Friday, June 14, 2013 06:41:33 PM Thomas Voß wrote: On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Jonathan Riddell j...@jriddell.org wrote: On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 11:47:43PM +0800, Ma Xiaojun wrote: KDE, this one is interesting. The one even tries to support proprietary OS. The same also claim their

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-14 Thread Thomas Voß
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 6:50 PM, Scott Kitterman ubu...@kitterman.com wrote: On Friday, June 14, 2013 06:41:33 PM Thomas Voß wrote: On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Jonathan Riddell j...@jriddell.org wrote: On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 11:47:43PM +0800, Ma Xiaojun wrote: KDE, this one is

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-14 Thread Oliver Ries
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Thomas Voß thomas.v...@canonical.comwrote: [...] I think we're all after a good technical solution for which there are resources to implement. I know it won't happen upstream KDE and I'm almost as confident the Kubuntu team is lacking the right skills to

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-14 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Friday, June 14, 2013 11:09:25 AM Oliver Ries wrote: On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Thomas Voß thomas.v...@canonical.comwrote: [...] I think we're all after a good technical solution for which there are resources to implement. I know it won't happen upstream KDE and I'm

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-14 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Fr, 2013-06-14 at 13:12 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: On Friday, June 14, 2013 11:09:25 AM Oliver Ries wrote: in addition to that I just want to highlight, that Jono and I are working on creating a forum for all interested Mir stakeholders (e.g. flavors, but also ISVs and others) to

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-14 Thread Robert Ancell
I think most of the points have been covered in this thread but I'll just emphasise a few points: - The use of Mir in Ubuntu should have no effect on using any alternative display systems. Some things will gain Mir backends but everything will continue to support X and Wayland if the upstreams

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-14 Thread Treviño
Il giorno ven, 14/06/2013 alle 13.12 -0400, Scott Kitterman ha scritto: Historically, one of the great things about Kubuntu has been that we could rely on the work of the X team to give us a great display system with up to date hardware support that we didn't have to worry about. Glad to hear

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-14 Thread Seth Arnold
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 05:27:30PM +0100, Jonathan Riddell wrote: It's not a case of technical problems it's a case of Mir being different for no paticular advantage. It's a political problem of I for one am looking forward to finally having a fix for http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/49579 Time

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-14 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 14 June 2013 12:48, Oliver Grawert o...@ubuntu.com wrote: is kwin upstream planning to drop X support as well ? seems running kubuntu with kwin on top of XMir is no problem (unless i read other mails in this thread wrong) I expect GNOME (meaning GNOME Shell on top of GDM) to switch to

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-14 Thread Jono Bacon
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Jeremy Bicha jbi...@ubuntu.com wrote: On 14 June 2013 12:48, Oliver Grawert o...@ubuntu.com wrote: is kwin upstream planning to drop X support as well ? seems running kubuntu with kwin on top of XMir is no problem (unless i read other mails in this thread

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-14 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 14 June 2013 17:51, Jono Bacon j...@ubuntu.com wrote: I suspect X support for GNOME will be around for a while primarily so Red Hat can continue to serve their customers. RHEL 7 is expected to release later this year with X. I don't think we can rule out RHEL 8 shipping with Wayland by