This week at LWN: Ubuntu unveils its next-generation shell and display server

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Mar 18, 2013 9:10 PM EDT
LWN.net; By Nathan Willis
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Ubuntu publicly announced its plan for the future of its Unity graphical shell on March 4, a plan that includes a new compositing window manager designed to run on the distribution's device platforms as well as on desktop systems. The plan will reimplement the Unity shell in Qt and replace Compiz with a new display stack called Mir that will incorporate a compositor, input manager, and several other pieces. Mir is not designed to use the Wayland display protocol (although the Ubuntu specification suggests it could be added later), a decision that raised the ire of developers in several other projects.

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