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Mir 2.26 Begins Working On Rust-Based Input Platform

([Ubuntu] 4 Hours Ago Mir 2.26)


Canonical today released Mir 2.26 as the newest feature release for this compositor for building Wayland-based shells. Notable with Mir 2.26 is a Rust-based input platform is in development as part of their broader effort for bringing Rust code into Mir.

A Rust-based input platform is in development for Mir but not yet enabled by default. This Rust-based input platform is being used to " proves our strategy for integrating Rust code into Mir. "

There is wayland-rs as part of this for starting to implement a Wayland front-end in the Rust programming language.

Mir 2.26 also brings working support for the ext_image_copy_capture_v1 protocol and draft input-trigger protocols support.

The Mir 2.26 release announcement can be read on the [1]Ubuntu Discourse while the Mir code can be downloaded from [2]GitHub .



[1] https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/mir-release-v2-26-0/80323

[2] https://github.com/canonical/mir/releases/v2.26.0



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