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@GizmoChicken said in 2019: Time to make Unity8 great again?: Given recent progress, how about 2020Q1: Time to make Unity8 great again? I like it! Maybe we can just rename this thread?

Currently on stable. Also run 2 days on dev branch.

here is a cool one. Check out this idea which could also be a '5 minute task' too https://forums.ubports.com/topic/1687/have-you-told-your-local-national-paper-about-ubports

@wgarcia you're right: https://code.launchpad.net/unity shows 7.5 as "trunk"

@gizmochicken said in 18.04 desktop - getting it working again: Note that, in addition to posting results for Mir 0.32.1 RC4 (installed from ppa:mir-team/rc), I also posted results for Mir 0.32.0 (installed from the UBports repo). Hope that helps. Just to follow up on this here: Unity8 is working for me with (or without) the Mir release 0.32.1 from ppa:mir-team/release. However, it isn't working with the gdm greeter, just lightdm. (I've not experimented with further greeters.)

@gizmochicken said in No more "Mir EGL" on 1804LTS (Bionic): At the risk of revealing the I understand less than I purport to understand, I have one more question: I know this calls for speculation, but do you anticipate that the above mentioned problematic Qt based applications will behave reasonably well (as a stopgap) under the XWayland solution that you are currently developing for Mir? That is a reasonable expectation, although don't expect immediate progress! (We've not started coding yet,) But Qt applications are largely usable already (and Qt 5.9.4 was a significant improvement on 5.9.3).

@webdrake said in Organizing Unity8 work: @alan_g I'll reach out to @mariogrip directly w.r.t. all things UBPorts. You've been more than generous with your time, but is it OK to still ping you about Mir(AL)-related issues w.r.t. the USC refactoring? No worries if not. Yes, I'm still happy to receive pings about Mir(AL) related stuff (USC or otherwise).

All fixed!

@unisuperbox That's good to know.

A few links for tracking Mir's progress since the OP: Wayland support (for some extensions) is available in Mir already and will improve with the next release For non-Wayland applications: there are plans for X11 support (but this come later)