[FAQ] Ubuntu GNOME & The Display Server

[Marc Thomas]

Isn't this divergent of technologies similar to that of Ubuntu GNOME using
GDM, and Stock Ubuntu implementing Lightdm? Would not the same apply to Mir
and Wayland?

I suppose Mir/Wayland is a much lower level/fundamental technology, and may
cause some incompatibilities with future applications if they are developed
for one but not the other. That being said, Application developers don't
generally develop for X, or Mir, or Wayland. They use tool kits, such as
GTK or QT, and those tool kits provide an abstraction layer that makes
their application compatible with X, Mir and Wayland.

I guess my thoughts are that the tool kits being developed need to be
updated to support all 3 technologies.


On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 5:11 AM, Steve Ovens <steve_ovens at linux.com> wrote:

> Hi Ali,
>
> I believe in the FAQ there should be some more detail. I know both Wayland
> and Mir are premature, but putting that in the FAQ without a detailed
> description of each seems lacking to me.  My proposal would be to either
> change the title to something like "But what if Ubuntu chooses a different
> display manager?" as opposed to a "X vs Mir vs Wayland" which may help to
> set and meet expectations better. If I am looking for X vs Wayland vs Mir,
> then I am fairly technical and I would expect some sort of comparison.
>
> Just my thoughts
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 3:56 AM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) <amjjawad at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Sorry, forgot to mention:
>>
>>
>>  On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) <
>> amjjawad at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> *(Q)* I am little worried about GNOME is taking a route that will be
>>> more compatible with Wayland display server, but Ubuntu will go for the MIR
>>> display server, how will this affect the next Ubuntu GNOME Releases?
>>> *(A)* The whole MIR vs Wayland thing, is entirely irrelevant for now.
>>> Ubuntu 14.04 is using X and it is not going to just disappear overnight!
>>> Ubuntu GNOME 14.10 will likely continue using X, even if Ubuntu switch to
>>> MIR. At some point in the distant future we will probably switch to
>>> Wayland, but right now its not even close to being ready.
>>>
>>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGNOME/FAQ#X_vs_Wayland_vs_MIR
>>>
>>> http://ubuntugnome.org/documentation/faq/
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>>
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