On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 9:50 PM, Alexander Ploumistos
<alex.ploumistos(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
As we discussed earlier today, I have contacted several desktop
environments about their plans that might impact i686. So far, I've
written to MATE, LXDE/LXQt, Xfce, Enlightenment and Lumina[0], which I
had never heard of before, but I found through dnf. I also discovered
Hawaii[1] that way, but their website had only x86_64 stuff, so I
didn't bother with them.
Great! Thanks for taking care of this so quickly.
Have I forgotten someone?
No, I don't think so. I think those represent the vast majority of our
potential user base. Never heard of Lumina. I'll have to check it out.
:)
I've already heard back from Enlightenment, this is their
response:
> We have nothing that will make it impractical or impossible to run. We still do
> a lot of work on having EFL and enlightenment run on ARM and ARM is still 99.9%
> 32bit (ARM64 is still not widely spread). We design our code to run in both
> situations.
>
> It MAY be that you hit particular bugs that were missed in testing as 32bit
> installed become far less frequent on x86 (some of them may be interactions
> between other libraries like Mesa and so on), but nothing specifically to make
> it impractical or impossible.
Great! Sounds like we'll at least have one WM we can target. Thanks
again for contacting these upstreams.
jeff
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