glyf ([personal profile] glyf) wrote in [personal profile] mjg59 2014-05-23 08:31 pm (UTC)

Re: tweaks

1: Thanks for the reference. I'll watch with interest and try to get better informed about these issues - I am commenting almost entirely based on PR announcements, which I realize is not the best technical basis for critique.

2: What I was saying about GNOME's maintainers is that they were making the wrong decisions for GNOME, not that they were making the wrong decisions for X. Therefore it's perfectly reasonable to believe that X's maintainers will make the

3: Here is one example of the rug being pulled out: http://digitizor.com/2010/11/05/ubuntu-to-ditch-x-for-wayland/

Here's a different rug being pulled out again: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/03/canonical-announce-custom-display-server-mir-not-wayland-not-x

Neither of these are ready replacements, and it is premature to

Maybe it's just Shuttleworth who keeps doing this, and it's unfair to blame him personally for the disaster in the whole desktop ecosystem, but... well, he's highly visible.

Regarding the relationship with nvidia; OEMs manage to work out these deals, Microsoft manages to work out these deals,

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