Re: [gentoo-user] gnome intrusion?

[Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 2:10 AM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 11:52:50PM +0000, Jorge Almeida wrote
>

>   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.
>

This is the kind of information that it would be useful to have in a
central place (WiKi), at least for USE variables that are bound to
have a global impact on the system.

>   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
>
Thanks.
I tried Pale Moon once, but I think it had the same problem as Firefox
regarding cpu use, namely with youtube.

> --

> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

+1

Cheers

Jorge

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