On 10 July 2013 18:27, Daniel Foré <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hey everyone,
So here’s the distilled conversation we had with Jono:
[snip]
Obviously there are pros and cons. The biggest con is that it is
highly unlikely Canonical will put staff hours into make sure stuff
like Gtk+ and Clutter work on Mir. This work is essential to
elementary as it stands and blocks us from running natively on Mir.
[snip]
Did Jono explain why this is unlikely, or is that your speculation?
Because it sounds contrary to the recent Mir interview. It also seems
kind of weird that a desktop distribution would want to make such an
enormous amount of applications second class citizens in this way.
It seems unlikely that they'll add GTK+ as a language for Ubuntu SDK
anytime soon, but that's a completely different thing and wouldn't
affect Elementary in any case. I would certainly expect Canonical to
add a GTK+ backend for Mir. Otherwise, they'll have close to no hope
of making Mir a successful display server.
More information about this would be very interesting read.
Jo-Erlend Schinstad
