GaZaTu/x11-emoji-picker

ARM builds

seancrowe opened this issue · 8 comments

seancrowe commented

I haven't tried building myself, but I believe all requirements have ARM support so in theory this should be able to be built for and run on linux ARM distros.

GaZaTu commented

uhh you're probably right 😊
ARM and AArch64? any distro requests? or all of them? or would an ARM and AArch64 .AppImage be enough?

zneix commented

I haven't tried building myself

well, do you have a machine that runs ARM or why do you even ask? Neither me or gazatu or anyone else that we know runs an ARM machine with desktop to even test this - are you actually interested in running that app on an ARM linux or are you just throwing the idea into the void telling us to do something which we can't even properly test. I'm sorry, but it makes no sense to do something, especially if there's no interest and no target audience.

GaZaTu commented

closing for inactivity and because i don't believe anyone actually uses ARM for desktop machines.

seancrowe commented

That is sad 😔

Raspberry pie, Linux on phone... Indeed ARM linux is a niche in a niche, but I wouldn't say nobody uses it.

I use ARM linux (ubuntu distro) every day, and like you the KDE emoji picker just doesn't cut it. So, no I am not just throwing the idea out there into the wind.

However, being a niche project and me using a niche OS. I probably am the only follower of this project running on ARM.

GaZaTu commented

ok i'll see if there's a way to build an .AppImage with github actions for ARM

seancrowe commented

Thanks. Clearly, I am niche of a niche. So. I understand if it ends up not easy that we just close this ticket. Hopefully github actions makes it easy.

GaZaTu commented

@seancrowe idk if you're still interested but today i found this actions/runner-images#5631 (comment) so maybe i can finally figure out a solution to this issue now 😅

seancrowe commented

@GaZaTu Cool. I am still interested, but to be 100% honest, I have moved most of my Linux work to the terminal and now use Windows or OS X as a shell. This was mostly because of job using MS Teams and Office.

I still use ARM Linux desktop time to time, but I would say it has decreased to a few times a year.

I still think ARM Linux is the future, and if you create a build, I would use it. However, feel free to hold off, or solve this ticket as you see fit. As my day-to-day use would not be very high.

Also, thanks for the emoji picker in general. I use it today over the default KDE picker on amd64 based devices.