Yay more "not invented here". The list of OS's is going to be: MacOS X, windows, Linux and completely separately Ubuntu by time they've replaced everything.<p>Canonical are turning into a 1990's style Unix vendor. We haven't forgotten that crock of shit yet.
>Tailored towards an EGL/GL(ES) world.<p>Oh no. Enabling compositing in metacity lets my accu die one hole hour earlier (about 30% earlier). In the age of mobile you <i></i>please<i></i> stop assuming "There is enough GPU/CPU power anyway"? Yes there is, but it consumes electricity.<p>On the other hand I'm looking forward to a x11 replacement. A display server in the spirit of x11 with lots of features thrown out. Fonts are rendered in the program anyway today. And less network round-trips. And allow me the change the output server or even just the display of a running program.
"<i>a beautiful and lean user experience</i>"<p>Yes please! Especially the lean bit. Saves all those older laptops and PCs filling up the landfill. Do I really need something more powerful than a Cray 1 to run a noddy spreadsheet or an R script?<p>"<i>Tightly integrated with the Unity shell, fulfilling the shell’s requirements while at the same time not dictating any sort of semantics up the stack.</i>"<p>Does that mean that Linux graphical applications will 'just work' on the Unity/MIR platform?<p>"<i>we wanted to decouple the way the shell works on top of the display server from the application-facing protocol</i>"<p>That sounds like what I was asking above. E.g. LibreOffice will 'just work'<p>"<i>We are in active conversations with GPU vendors to enable Mir on those drivers/GPUs, too</i>"<p>oh-oh; nvidia not on board so back to Debian from the one after Wheezy...<p>It will be fun to watch... possibly on the sidelines if they don't sort nvidia drivers
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So, where does GNOME fit into this? Unity is still very much layered on top of GNOME services. With Unity Next heavily utilizing Qt5/QML2, I'm very curious if they want to remove their dependence on GNOME for other system services.<p>THAT is something I'd love to see someone work on. Switching between KDE/GNOME is frustrating because there is so insanely much duplicated between the two with slightly different feature sets.<p>Mir, meh. I'm guessing it has most to do with being able to target existing Android devices. Most of the design rationale applies to Wayland as well, (including the things they seem to mark against Wayland, strangely)