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[Alan Bell <alanbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,
when looking to move to Unity8 on the desktop I am *really* going to 
miss my cube and zoom and of course the wobbly windows. As I understand 
it Mir is OpenGL (or OpenGL ES or something) based so everything goes 
through the powerful part of the GPU anyway, what are the prospects of 
manipulating the surfaces on the way through? Is this something that 
would be built in to the Mir compositor or could it be a third party 
thing? I see the alt-tab switcher is kinda 3dish (is that real 3d or 
just QML doing it in 2d with the CPU?) but I am not seeing any other bit 
of the phone interface taking advantage of the capability of the GPU.

Alan.