taking Unity to the next level

Hi, I wanted to give you a quick heads up regarding Unity in preparation of this weeks UDS. The traction that Ubuntu Touch is creating is great and the team is happy with where this is leading us. However, in order to implement the vision of converged devices, some changes to our Display Stack are necessary. After thorough research, looking at existing options and weighing in costs & benefits we have decided to roll our own Display Server, Mir (rf. http://wiki.ubuntu.com/MirSpec). None of the existing solutions would allow us to implement our vision without taking major compromises which would come at the cost of user experience and quality. We will be running sessions at UDS to discuss questions and take feedback. Also, driven by Ubuntu Touch we are starting to move Unity over to a Qt/QML based implementation, embracing Qt as a community backed technology for our offerings. We are looking at tackling the transition from the Nux based implementation to a Qt/QML based implementation component by component and are striving to do that in a transparent way for the user. This topic is also up for discussion at UDS and we are providing a spec at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnityNextSpec. I am providing more context about these topics at http://www.olli-ries.com/mir-unity-qml-unity-apis-unity . Please feel free to reach out to us during UDS and later on to discuss any questions. best, Olli