14 DAY TRIAL // One of the KDE developers has expressed his doubts that Kubuntu will be able to exist in its present form after Ubuntu switches to Mir.
Martin Gräßlin, the KDE developer who is questioning the future of Kubuntu, has been rather vocal in the past against Mir and against Canonical’s direction. His opinions haven’t changed.
“For Kubuntu the Mir switch by Canonical created quite some questions. One of those questions is answered: Upstream has no interest in supporting it and would most likely not accept patches for support.
“With upstream not using Mir the question is how the graphics stack for Kubuntu will look like once Ubuntu switched to Mir? The questions cannot be answered right now but it doesn’t look good,” says Martin Gräßlin in blog post.
It’s impossible to tell what will happen with all the Ubuntu flavors, at least until Mir will be integrated in the Ubuntu stack.
As it stands right now, the future of Kubuntu is uncertain, but maybe things will get cleared up with the release of Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander).