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From: Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gnome intrusion?
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 07:23:33
Message-Id: CAKpSnpLoKZZMBFsDjNO33gazu0O1rAHJwMwqPm7k6sei9jD6Sw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] gnome intrusion? by Walter Dnes
1 On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 2:10 AM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote:
2 > On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 11:52:50PM +0000, Jorge Almeida wrote
3 >
4
5 > The current Pale Moon requires glib-dbus. I do my own custom builds
6 > of Pale Moon for my personal use without dbus. I also have an ancient
7 > 32-bit-only Atom netbook. dbus is required for Necko-Wifi and Wakelock
8 > in Pale Moon, and presumably also in Firefox...
9 >
10 > Necko-Wifi - allows improved geo-location if you have wifi, which most
11 > PCs have, even newer desktops. It works by scanning SSIDs in your
12 > vicinity and comparing against a master global database. The local data
13 > has to be sent off to a master database (e.g. Google) for the comparison.
14 >
15 > Wakelock - is a generic API for grabbing a resource and not letting go
16 > of it... https://www.w3.org/TR/wake-lock-use-cases/ It's mostly used
17 > in mobile apps, but on the desktop it's used to disable the screensaver
18 > while a long video is playing.
19 >
20
21 This is the kind of information that it would be useful to have in a
22 central place (WiKi), at least for USE variables that are bound to
23 have a global impact on the system.
24
25 > If you can do without Necko-Wifi and Wakelock, you don't need dbus.
26 > Let me know off-list if you need any help custom-building Pale Moon.
27 > You can also join the Pale Moon web forum https://forum.palemoon.org/
28 > The linux section is https://forum.palemoon.org/viewforum.php?f=37
29 >
30 Thanks.
31 I tried Pale Moon once, but I think it had the same problem as Firefox
32 regarding cpu use, namely with youtube.
33
34 > --
35
36 > I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
37
38 +1
39
40 Cheers
41
42 Jorge
43
44 >

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] gnome intrusion? Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
Re: [gentoo-user] gnome intrusion? Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@×××.de>