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