Re: Mir vs. Wayland & effect on Linux "Ecosystem"?
Originally Posted by
tartalo
If KDE decided to use LightDM and join efforts with Canonical, there might be a little hope for a sane solution for Wayland/Mir coexistence in the same installation. However this is only interesting for Ubuntu users that use Unity plus another DE, and this collective is probably not a priority for anyone involved in the decision.
I'll bet there are a lot of people who install Ubuntu and then use a different DE. I know there are a lot of people who like to be able to choose from several different DEs, and Ubuntu is the obvious starting point. If it doesn't get worked out, then Ubuntu will no longer be the obvious starting point, and I think they'll suffer for it. But I'm sure it will be a while before they just switch over, and I'm sure they'll figure all of this out before making such a drastic move in a release.
In my opinion, going rogue with a replacement for X is about as ridiculous as switching to the HURD kernel.
Originally Posted by
JDShu
Hats off to you for illustrating the problem so clearly, I was having trouble explaining that "choice is not always better".
I think worst case scenario, you can run Shell in X mode, and then run that on XMir. Ridiculous, but it would work.
I just wonder about this because I'm currently using Gnome Shell, and for various reasons, I like installing it from Ubuntu rather than installing one of the vanilla Gnome variants. Hopefully if it ends up being your worst case scenario, they'll come up with a way to automate all of that so that the average user doesn't have to mess with that kind of headache.
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