Mike Gabriel, who is involved in the maintenance of Qt and Mate packages in Debian, has initiated the creation of packages for Unity 8 and Mir for Debian GNU/Linux and their subsequent integration into the distribution. Work is being done in collaboration with the project, which has taken on the development of the mobile platform Ubuntu Touch and the desktop , after they were dropped by Canonical. Currently, some packages have already been transferred to the unstable branch, the display server Mir. Unity 8 operates using the Qt5 library and the Mir display server, which acts as a composite server based on Wayland. Combined with the mobile environment of Ubuntu Touch, the Unity 8 desktop could be in demand for implementing Convergence mode, allowing the creation of an adaptive environment for mobile devices, which, when connected to a monitor, provides a full desktop experience and transforms a smartphone or tablet into a portable workstation.
Mike Gabriel, who is involved in the maintenance of Qt and Mate packages in Debian, has presented the initiative to create packages for.
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