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Re: Mir Discussion with Jono

 

Hey Robert,

Thanks for the clarification! From our discussion with Jono we left with the impression that Canonical wasn't intending to get Gtk+ working natively on Mir

Best Regards,
Daniel Foré

El jul 10, 2013, a las 4:18 p.m., Robert Ancell <robert.ancell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> escribió:

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> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad <joerlend.schinstad@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> 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 :)»
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> To clarify - it's been in the blueprints for some time, see "GTK+ support":
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/client-1303-mir-converged
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> 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.
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> 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 :)
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> --Robert

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