Re: [gentoo-user] gnome intrusion?

["Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 11:52:50PM +0000, Jorge Almeida wrote

> Good to know. I'm currently testing  openbox without dbus-launch. No
> problem yet.
> 
> It would be great to have some WiKi pages telling what some USE flag
> really do to particular packages, e.g, what does it mean to run
> firefox without dbus.

  The current Pale Moon requires glib-dbus.  I do my own custom builds
of Pale Moon for my personal use without dbus.  I also have an ancient
32-bit-only Atom netbook.  dbus is required for Necko-Wifi and Wakelock
in Pale Moon, and presumably also in Firefox...

Necko-Wifi - allows improved geo-location if you have wifi, which most
PCs have, even newer desktops.  It works by scanning SSIDs in your
vicinity and comparing against a master global database.  The local data
has to be sent off to a master database (e.g. Google) for the comparison.

Wakelock - is a generic API for grabbing a resource and not letting go
of it... https://www.w3.org/TR/wake-lock-use-cases/  It's mostly used
in mobile apps, but on the desktop it's used to disable the screensaver
while a long video is playing.

  If you can do without Necko-Wifi and Wakelock, you don't need dbus.
Let me know off-list if you need any help custom-building Pale Moon.
You can also join the Pale Moon web forum https://forum.palemoon.org/
The linux section is https://forum.palemoon.org/viewforum.php?f=37

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications