On: Ubuntu 13.10 to ship with Mir instead of X

[mpyne]

Well the work done to prep for moving to Wayland has probably helped a lot for moving to any other not-X, I would imagine. E.g. Qt has a lot better abstraction capabilities now than it did for Qt 3.

[jonhohle → mpyne]

> Qt has a lot better abstraction capabilities > now than it did for Qt 3

Qt has run on not-X since the beginning. It's always been available for Windows, and has had (suboptimal) OS X support for over a decade.

[mpyne → jonhohle]

I'm well aware of where Qt has (and has not) been able to run.

What I'm saying is that it's a lot easier to make new ports now than it was back then. This was mostly driven by Nokia's requirements, but it's still useful in the context of making a version that would run on Mir.

[gcr → jonhohle]

GTK+ has also worked fine on Windows for ages with support for native Windows widgets.