14 DAY TRIAL // Amidst all the news about Ubuntu Touch, Snappy, and other various products, we finally get to see something about the progress made by developers with X applications running natively in Mir and Unity 8.
In case some of you forgot, Canonical is working on its own display server called Mir, and it's also preparing the next generation of its desktop environment, Unity 8, to power Ubuntu. As it stands right now, these two components are only working on the phone, but the desktop flavor will be coming along. The developer's ability to make X apps running on the Mir display server is paramount, and it looks like it's coming along just nicely.
"Demo of X apps running in a container on a Unity 8 session with Mir (without a window manager). The app spread automatically adapted to a desktop environment, LibreOffice, Gedit and Firefox with a WebGL demo are also featured," wrote developers on YouTube.
For now, the best way of seeing the progress made by Canonical with Mir and Unity 8 is to run them inside a container, which is quite easy to set up. Also, the fact that X apps like LibreOffice are running so easily under Mir is a sign that the developer's effort are finally moving the project toward a stable version.
You can check the video below and see what Canonical has been doing in the past couple of years.
