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@doniks said in 2019: Time to make Unity8 great again?: Wouldn't it then be more logical to have a greeter that is a wayland client? Or maybe the login managers from some other desktop environment could be used. Curious what you think. The Canonical design was for unity-system-compositor [USC] to be a system wide Mir server that supported both the greeter and login session based shells. Only USC would interact with the hardware, it would see the greeter and session shells as Mir clients. The session shells would use the mirclient API (a.k.a. "Mir-on-Mir") but that requires "Mir EGL" and is no longer possible. This architecture has a number of desirable features: only one system-wide task has to negotiate access to the hardware, and that task also controls transitions between user sessions, login screens and lock screens. Once Mir has a Mir-on-Wayland platform it will be possible to retain that architecture and use Wayland instead of the mirclient API.

I went back to OPO as my daily driver a few days ago. It has been while since I used it daily as I have had Pro 5 as my main device for some time. Now, with the OPO on the devel channel, I can conclude that battery performance is pretty poor. Today, I took it off the charger (fully charged) at 06:40am, have done a couple of phone calls and some e-mailing with Dekko. That aside, very light use. I have all radios enabled (and bluetooth connected to my Pebble smartwatch), but have mostly been on WiFi. At 12:40, the battery was down to 40%, which equals an average hourly drain of 10%. That is considerably worse than my Pro 5 under similar conditions.

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)