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Re:Ubuntu 13.10 to ship with Mir instead of X by zobzu on Thursday July 11, 2013 @11:42PM (#6030788)
Wayland requires stuff like KDE (QT) and Gnome (GTK) to be ported to it to be useful.. or to bring their own stuff.

Qt5 now works on Wayland - and KDE has a release coming up (the dev code already works on Wayland)

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Re:Ubuntu 13.10 to ship with Mir instead of X by bkor on Friday July 12, 2013 @05:14AM (#6031702)
When Mir was announed, Wayland was already past 1.0. About 60% of the GNOME applications currently run under Wayland. See https://live.gnome.org/Wayland/Applications.

Note that Mir requires the exact same stuff. Just that nobody posted a patch to add such support. It is all distro specific.

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Re:Ubuntu 13.10 to ship with Mir instead of X by mercurial on Friday July 12, 2013 @07:58AM (#6032116)
Not going to be integrated in upstream KDE in any case, see [1]. I don't think Gnome devs are particularly sanguine about it either.

As for me, I'm waiting for a hypothetical WLMonad.

1: http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2013/05/mir-in-kubuntu...

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