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In D21660#563560 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D21660#563560>, @bcooksley wrote: > Considering that D-Bus doesn't really belong on Windows, KDE uses dbus for many internal services. On a recent linux system I see the following KDE services in dbus org.kde.ActivityManager org.kde.JobViewServer org.kde.kappmenu org.kde.kcookiejar5 org.kde.kdeconnectd org.kde.kded5 org.kde.keyboard org.kde.kglobalaccel org.kde.kiod5 org.kde.kioexecd org.kde.klauncher5 org.kde.klipper org.kde.knotify org.kde.kpasswdserver org.kde.krunner org.kde.kssld5 org.kde.kuiserver org.kde.kwalletd5 org.kde.Solid.PowerManagement org.kde.Solid.PowerManagement.PolicyAgent org.kde.StatusNotifierWatcher Some of them are Linux only, but some are required on Windows (for example kio) > and has been known to cause security software (such as anti-malware packages) to generate false positives in the past, This has not been reported to the official dbus issue tracker (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/groups/dbus/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&search=virus) . Can you point me to related reports ? > For standalone applications there isn't really a reason to have it around. From what I know does kio depends on dbus, which mean you are saying that standalone applications could not use kio and my be others (see above) REPOSITORY R289 KNotifications REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D21660 To: brute4s99, broulik, nicolasfella Cc: cullmann, habacker, aspotashev, bcooksley, apol, nicolasfella, kde-frameworks-devel, LeGast00n, GB_2, michaelh, ngraham, bruns