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* Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome intrusion?
  @ 2016-11-15 19:23 99%       ` Jorge Almeida
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From: Jorge Almeida @ 2016-11-15 19:23 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 5:39 PM, Ian Zimmerman <itz@primate.net> wrote:
> On 2016-11-14 23:52, Jorge Almeida wrote:
>
>> Good to know. I'm currently testing  openbox without dbus-launch. No
>> problem yet.
>
> Do you _know_ a reason you need dbus, at all?

No.

>
> If you don't, you don't need it ;-)

I would like to believe that.

>
> Typically, a lot of GUI apps have dbus as a soft dependency for the sole
> purpose of avoiding multiple instances.  So starting the app for the
> second time just activates (in some general sense) the old window.

Seems harmless enough. But how did they manage to convince nearly
everybody that dbus is the best invention next to sliced bread?

Jorge


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