Canonical reveals plans to launch Mir display server (The H)
Posted Mar 5, 2013 10:03 UTC (Tue) by anselm
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But since a good part of the work have already been done, starting from scratch to go faster would be rather surprising.
I'd guess that the people at Canonical are afraid that the Wayland people will get sidetracked into stuff that is not important to what Canonical needs, and that will hold up the project.
For example, suppose the Wayland people made supporting multi-screen setups a priority. This isn't all that relevant to phones or tablets, which are the reason why Canonical is in this game in the first place.
The people at Canonical – who are under pressure because they essentially need to catch up with Android etc. in the mobile space – may think that it is faster to hack up something that supports exactly their use case without having to depend on an external project whose focus is different than Canonical's. It's not as if we hadn't seen that sort of thing before, either.
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