Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-17 Thread Thomas Voß
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 6:52 AM, Robert Ancell wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Scott Kitterman > wrote: >> >> On Monday, June 17, 2013 09:52:49 PM Oliver Ries wrote: >> > On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Scott Kitterman >> wrote: >> Part of the problem is that no one outside Canonica

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-17 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 -0700]

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-17 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Tuesday, June 18, 2013 04:52:56 PM Robert Ancell wrote: > On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > On Monday, June 17, 2013 09:52:49 PM Oliver Ries wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Scott Kitterman > > > > wrote: > > Part of the problem is that no one outside Ca

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-17 Thread Robert Ancell
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Monday, June 17, 2013 09:52:49 PM Oliver Ries wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Scott Kitterman > wrote: > Part of the problem is that no one outside Canonical know enough to really > have an informed opinion. Here are some i

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-17 Thread Seth Arnold
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 09:00:29PM +0100, 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 Hrm, I just skimmed i

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-17 Thread Matthias Klumpp
2013/6/18 Jono Bacon : > On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Scott Kitterman > 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 with other priorities, etc.,

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 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

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 stil

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 e

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-17 Thread Oliver Ries
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 11:12 AM, 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

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-17 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Monday, June 17, 2013 09:32:46 PM Michael Hall wrote: > 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

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 Ridd

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:

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 i

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 wrote: > 2013/6/18 Jono Bacon : > > 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, it > took a lot of time to > cle

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-17 Thread Jono Bacon
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Scott Kitterman 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 with other priorities, etc., integrating Mir is > simply not

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: > >>>

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, a

Re: Legacy hardware support in MIR

2013-06-17 Thread Robert Ancell
Mir uses the free drivers that X does currently and Android drivers. So if you card is currently supported in X (i.e. intel, ati, nouveau) then it will continue to work (if those drivers are continued to be maintained). On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Karl Anliot wrote: > I have to ask because

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? >>

Legacy hardware support in MIR

2013-06-17 Thread Karl Anliot
I have to ask because I do not know: will MIR support old abandoned video cards?So If I have an older graphics card that works well now, will the MIR maintainers be supporting that graphics card into the future? cheers, kanliot -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modif

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 > > https://bugs.kde.o

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 caus

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 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 for

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-17 Thread Jonathan Riddell
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 08:01:16PM +0200, Thomas Voß wrote: > Yup :) I think a good way forward is to coordinate a call with > Jonathan and Martin from KWin such that we can walk through the code > together and identify the central points that would need to be mapped > to Mir. We can then start dis

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 unsubscr

Re: xtables-addons 2.2-1 raring

2013-06-17 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Pierre, On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 04:28:49PM +0200, Pierre Chifflier wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Pierre Chifflier wrote: > > > I'm sorry, but I am not the Ubuntu packager for xtables-addons (nor any > > > other package, BTW). I see on [1] that my name appears, but in fact, I > >

Re: MeeGo applauncherd: faster application startup and more

2013-06-17 Thread Alberto Mardegan
On 06/17/2013 04:14 PM, Marc Deslauriers wrote: Hrm, since this forks instead of doing an exec, it probably doesn't handle kernel security mechanisms well, such as ASLR. I'm not sure how we would handle switching AppArmor policies either, or how well our DBus AppArmor integration would work. Our

Re: xtables-addons 2.2-1 raring

2013-06-17 Thread Pierre Chifflier
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 05:53:14PM +0400, Dmitry Shachnev wrote: > Hi Pierre, > > On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Pierre Chifflier wrote: > > I'm sorry, but I am not the Ubuntu packager for xtables-addons (nor any > > other package, BTW). I see on [1] that my name appears, but in fact, I > > onl

Re: MeeGo applauncherd: faster application startup and more

2013-06-17 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Mo, 2013-06-17 at 15:43 +0200, Thomas Voß wrote: > > Our current plan is to use Upstart for application launching. > > > > Are there any benchmarks somewhere that show what the performance gains > > are on application startup using mapplauncherd? > > That's a good point. I think applicatio

Re: xtables-addons 2.2-1 raring

2013-06-17 Thread Dmitry Shachnev
Hi Pierre, On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Pierre Chifflier wrote: > I'm sorry, but I am not the Ubuntu packager for xtables-addons (nor any > other package, BTW). I see on [1] that my name appears, but in fact, I > only upload to Debian, and somehow (?, cron job or whatever) and > sometimes Ubu

Re: MeeGo applauncherd: faster application startup and more

2013-06-17 Thread Thomas Voß
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Marc Deslauriers wrote: > On 13-06-17 01:33 AM, Alberto Mardegan wrote: >> Hi all! >> I'm sending this message both to ubuntu-devel and ubuntu-phone, in the >> hope of reaching the widest interested audience as possible. However, >> please reply to ubuntu-devel o

Re: MeeGo applauncherd: faster application startup and more

2013-06-17 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 13-06-17 01:33 AM, Alberto Mardegan wrote: > Hi all! > I'm sending this message both to ubuntu-devel and ubuntu-phone, in the > hope of reaching the widest interested audience as possible. However, > please reply to ubuntu-devel only. > > I want to bring to your attention the existence of a p

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] MeeGo applauncherd: faster application startup and more

2013-06-17 Thread Alberto Mardegan
On 06/17/2013 12:35 PM, Thomas Voß wrote: On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Michael Zanetti wrote: Basically instead of launching your app normally, you give it as an argument to a the so called invoker (/usr/bin/invoker) which has all the common stuff already loaded and forks to your applicati

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-17 Thread Thomas Voß
On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Olav Vitters 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 wrote: >> >> > Primary focus for GNOME will be Wayland. There are a few things that >> > Wayland does not support that X did support.

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] MeeGo applauncherd: faster application startup and more

2013-06-17 Thread Michael Zanetti
On Monday 17 June 2013 07:43:26 Thomas Voß wrote: > thanks for bringing this up. Upstart user session will take care of > single application instances and integrates with AppArmor to implement > our confinement strategy (for >= saucy). The interesting feature from > my pov is the accelerated applic

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] MeeGo applauncherd: faster application startup and more

2013-06-17 Thread Thomas Voß
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Michael Zanetti wrote: > On Monday 17 June 2013 07:43:26 Thomas Voß wrote: >> thanks for bringing this up. Upstart user session will take care of >> single application instances and integrates with AppArmor to implement >> our confinement strategy (for >= saucy).

MeeGo applauncherd: faster application startup and more

2013-06-17 Thread Alberto Mardegan
Hi all! I'm sending this message both to ubuntu-devel and ubuntu-phone, in the hope of reaching the widest interested audience as possible. However, please reply to ubuntu-devel only. I want to bring to your attention the existence of a project which IMHO would be very beneficial to Ubuntu

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] MeeGo applauncherd: faster application startup and more

2013-06-17 Thread Alberto Mardegan
On 06/17/2013 09:43 AM, Thomas Voß wrote: Hey Alberto, thanks for bringing this up. Upstart user session will take care of single application instances and integrates with AppArmor to implement our confinement strategy (for >= saucy). The interesting feature from my pov is the accelerated applic