Originally posted by skeevy420
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Part of the background to both this and the other desktop test changes 144Hz mentions is that Fedora CoreOS and Fedora IoT are both becoming release-blocking editions. Silverblue is also an increasingly important effort. So it's increasingly less feasible for us (the QA team) to be spending a very large chunk of our time doing exhaustive testing on *three* different desktops: GNOME, KDE and Xfce. (The brief history of Xfce is: we wanted to have a supported desktop on 32-bit ARM, for a while it was KDE, then we decided that KDE on 32-bit ARM basically sucked so we'd just make Xfce release-blocking instead, then over the next few years we started kinda regretting the workload that adds, le end).
So we started talking about maybe not covering KDE quite so exhaustively, because it ships...so...much...damn...*STUFF* (it takes about 2-3 hours to run the 'launch everything in the menus and check it basically works' test on GNOME; it takes anywhere from 4 hours to two days to do it for KDE, depending on how conscientious you are about it). And we also talked to the ARM folks and said 'so, uh, how much do you really care about Xfce on 32-bit ARM?' and they said "oh not really much at all, in fact we'd been meaning to propose switching to Workstation on 64-bit ARM for desktop ARM blocking purposes, we just didn't get around to it yet". So that synced up nicely.
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