Phoronix: Mir 2.9 w/XDG-Shell; Add'l Extensions: Any Impact on UBPorts?
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Saw this article. Thought it could perhaps be of benefit to UBPorts, but do not know enough about the underlying graphics stack.
I do not follow IRC feeds or anything where maybe everyone already talks about this, 20.04
Only recently learned mir is still used.
I am simply curious as a user, that is all. I am really excited about the future of the project.
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I'm no expert on this topic but I think any changes in Mir will impact Ubuntu Touch but not immediately since we're still running an older version. There are things that needs to be done before we can use latest versions.
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@eirikr1848 I'm the team lead on Mir and can reassure you that there's open communication between the UBports devs and the Mir team, so this isn't news to them.
There are several pieces of work needed before Mir 2.9 could be integrated into Ubuntu Touch:
- The UT ecosystem (apps, toolkits, indicators, etc) needs to migrate from the mirclient API to Wayland;
- To do this, some functionality gaps need plugging that mirclient API provided and require new Wayland extension protocols; and,
- Ubuntu Touch's QtMir needs to migrate to using Mir's libmiroil API
Some exploratory work has been done on all of these task and it is mostly a matter of someone finding time for them.
However, unless someone else steps up and volunteers, most of this work needs to be completed by the UBports devs and they are currently busy with the migration from 16.04 to 20.04.
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@alan_g Thanks for that! That answer satiated my curiosity for sure - but its unfortunate there are not enough volunteers!
The only thing I can really volunteer to do is outreach - looking for volunteers on UBPorts-supported device forums on XDA, etc.
Is there anything a user/fan like me can do to help?