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> - HEADLINE: Drop Mir & collaborate with Wayland That would more accurately be: - HEADLINE: Port Unity 8 to be a Wayland compositor This would be at least a
by mhall119 10y ago
> - HEADLINE: Drop Mir & collaborate with Wayland
That would more accurately be:
- HEADLINE: Port Unity 8 to be a Wayland compositor
This would be at least a multi-year effort. Consider how much time and effort went into porting Gnome Shell and KWin over to Wayland. It would be at least as much work do the same with Unity 8.
- bronson 10y agoFinishing Mir is also a multi-year effort. So, where would the programmer-hours best be spent?
- mr_overalls 10y agoExactly. Let's avoid the sunk-cost fallacy.
- mhall119 10y agoSorry if I wan't clear, the point was that it wouldn't be possible to do in time for 17.10, which is what the original post was asking about.