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[Jono Bacon <jono@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Jono Bacon <jono@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Manish Sinha <manishsinha@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
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>> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Daniel Foré <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>> > At the current rate, 14.04 may be the last version of Ubuntu under
>> which you can run Gtk+ apps unless the community wants to build Mir support
>> for Gtk+.
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>> I don't think I understand this properly. You mean to say that after
>> 14.04 Ubuntu cannot run GTK+ apps as they will go pure Mir and Mir
>> won't have GTK+ support?
>> Is this true? What about all the apps written in GTK+? What will they
>> be replaced with?
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> I checked into this with the Mir team and the 14.04 plan is to run non-Qt
> apps that don't have a Mir backend as rootless X apps, so all GTK apps will
> continue to work. Currently Canonical is investing in building a Qt backend
> and providing help and guidance for those who want to build Mir backends
> for other toolkits. In fact, there is an active discussion underway on
> mir-devel as we speak about a GTK Mir backend (
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/mir-devel/2013-July/000275.html).
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> So in a nutshell, there will be no regressions at all with regards to GTK
> apps in 14.04.
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> Oops, sorry it turns out I had this wrong - for 14.04 we will continue to
ship Unity 7 on XMir on Mir, which will obviously continue to run GTK apps.
In 14.10 the GTK apps will be rootless, although if the community GTK Mir
backend work continues to make improvements, we may well have native Mir
GTK support by then.

   Jono

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