14 DAY TRIAL // A Linux kernel developer has explained in detail the reasons that forced Canonical to drop the XMir support for Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander).
The announcement that Canonical will not integrate XMir in Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander) has been quite a surprise for the community. Earlier this year, Mark Shuttleworth seemed pretty confident that this would be the case.
Matthew Garrett has been one of Mir’s detractors and stated right from the onset that he did not approve the direction taken by Canonical. He felt that the official reason provided by Ubuntu developers should have been more comprehensive.
“XMir's been delayed from Ubuntu 13.10. The stated reason is that multi-monitor support isn't sufficiently reliable. That's true, but it's far from the only problem that XMir still has,” stated Matthew Garrett on his blog.
Beside the multi-monitor problem cited by Canonical, the developer also said that Mir was still not working on single-monitor systems, the input driver bug hadn't been fixed properly, and there were still a lot of missing features.
Canonical will ship Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander) on October 17, accompanied, most likely, by Ubuntu Touch.