Matthew Garrett has posted an assessment of where XMir development stands. “This is an unfortunate situation to be in. Ubuntu Desktop was told that they were switching to XMir, but Mir development seems to be driven primarily by the needs of Ubuntu Phone. XMir has to do things that no other Mir client will ever cope with, and unless Mir development takes that into account it’s inevitably going to suffer breakage like this. Canonical management needs to resolve this if there’s any hope of ever shipping XMir as the default desktop environment.“
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