Mike Gabriel, participant in the maintenance of Qt and Mate packages in Debian, initiated the creation of Unity 8 and Mir packages for Debian GNU/Linux and their subsequent integration into the distribution. The 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 Canonical. Currently, some packages with the Mir display server. Unity 8 uses the Qt5 library and the Mir display server, which acts as a composite server based on Wayland. In combination with the mobile environment of Ubuntu Touch, the Unity 8 desktop could be in demand for implementing the Convergence mode, which allows creating an adaptive environment for mobile devices that provides a full desktop when connected to a monitor, turning a smartphone or tablet into a portable workstation.
Mike Gabriel, participant in the maintenance of Qt and Mate packages in Debian, introduced the initiative for creating packages with.
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