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[Alan Bell <alanbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 26/04/16 11:31, Andrea Bernabei wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 11:27 AM, Alan Bell <alanbell@xxxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:alanbell@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>
>     On 26/04/16 11:02, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
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>         Remember, there is no phone/tablet/desktop split, it's all a
>         converged
>         experience.
>
>     it might be one day, but right now in 16.04
>     unity8-desktop-session-mir is not exactly ready or recommended for
>     prime time. For starters dual screens mean one of them gets stuff
>     written on it sideways asking you to use it as a touchpad for the
>     other screen! 
>
>
> How is this related? :)
well it is one thing of many that makes me feel that convergence is a 
long way off and Unity 8 isn't supposed to be used on grown up hardware 
yet :)
>     I have not been able to launch any apps for more than a second or
>     two (possibly something to do with cgroups services in systemd?)
>     and I am not sure that xmir is ready to have X apps launched from
>     the app scope.
>
>
> there's a work in progress bug for not being able to launch apps on 
> UbuntuClassic+Unity8/Mir. That is supposed to work on  the tablet.
yeah, it is quite possible that the cgroups thing is related to my 
laptop which was a clean install of 12.04 and has been upgraded every 
release from there and I installed the Mir and Wayland previews as soon 
as they were available so something may have gone astray along the way.
>     Lets say for a moment we go along with the converged experience
>     thing, how in Unity 8 would I have a Qt UI component that is
>     focussed but not active using touch or mouse or keyboard to
>     achieve it?
>
>
> For instance by tabbing through, as you previously said.
OK, so that does work then, I have been unable to get to the point of 
having a QML app running in Mir on my laptop, but I will give it another 
go and see if I can get any further. If I can run a terminal and a 
browser with a debugger then I am basically OK to converge (although 
limiting to one functional screen would be a bit of a pain)