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[Robert Ancell <robert.ancell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad <
joerlend.schinstad@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> Had to take a trip to #Ubuntu-mir on Freenode. I asked about this and
> Robert Carr replied: «We've always said that we were creating a GTK
> backend. but it's behind anything for the phone or the system compositor of
> course :)»
>


To clarify - it's been in the blueprints for some time, see "GTK+ support":
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/client-1303-mir-converged

The reason we're not working on it right now is it's not required for the
phone, or for an XMir based desktop which are the two goals we are working
towards. There's been a number of people who have expressed interest in
developing a GTK+ backend for Mir, the most recent being
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/mir-devel/2013-July/000275.html.

We don't expect it to be an enormous amount of work due to the refactoring
that has occurred in GDK to support Wayland and other next generation
display servers and we've been hoping that someone with the time will
implement it sooner rather than later :)

--Robert