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      2021: The year of the Lomiri desktop environment?
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      @arubislander thanks for the explanation !

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      Introducing Miroil
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      @alan_g
      Oh! so I totally misunderstood that command...reading the documentation seemed to me git pull already encompass a git fetch and a git merge. also I tried the git pull after the make command and that confirmed the local branch was up-to-date. ok, i will try again after the fetch. thank you.

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      Mir 1.x and beyond
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      @alan_g said in Mir 1.x and beyond:

      Mir doesn’t (yet) have a clean API for adding Wayland protocol extensions in a server and, in any case, those that are needed by Ubuntu Touch are simply exposing existing Mir functionality. So, once the necessary protocol extensions are identified, the Mir code is the place to implement them.

      Small clarification, that was a year ago. There's now a way to add Wayland extensions to Mir servers.

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      Using Mir in Ubuntu Touch
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      2019: Time to make Unity8 great again?
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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?

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      Observations on battery life - please share your experiences
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      @poVoq said in Observations on battery life - please share your experiences:

      Well, given that there is still some battery charging stuff running, even when the main OS is turned off, maybe there is an firmware issue of some sort? Could anyone else with a Nexus5 try and see what happens with a turned off device?

      Small update on this: it appears my Nexus5 isn't powering down the wifi chip on shut-down. So if I make sure there is no connection before shutting it down the battery doesn't drain nearly as fast when turned off. Is this something that might be a specific UT issue?

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      "5 minute" tasks
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      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

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      Would changing the "Unity8" name be less confusing than keeping it?
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      @wgarcia you're right: https://code.launchpad.net/unity shows 7.5 as "trunk"

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      18.04 desktop - getting it working again
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      @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.)

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      No more "Mir EGL" on 1804LTS (Bionic)
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      @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).

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      Organizing Unity8 work
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      @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).

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      changing the tagline?
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      All fixed!

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      Unity8 for desktop
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      @unisuperbox 🙂 That's good to know.

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      Running desktop applications on UBports (X11, Wayland, Mir and toolkits)
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      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)