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On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 2:10 AM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 11:52:50PM +0000, Jorge Almeida wrote |
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> The current Pale Moon requires glib-dbus. I do my own custom builds |
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> of Pale Moon for my personal use without dbus. I also have an ancient |
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> 32-bit-only Atom netbook. dbus is required for Necko-Wifi and Wakelock |
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> in Pale Moon, and presumably also in Firefox... |
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> Necko-Wifi - allows improved geo-location if you have wifi, which most |
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> PCs have, even newer desktops. It works by scanning SSIDs in your |
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> vicinity and comparing against a master global database. The local data |
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> has to be sent off to a master database (e.g. Google) for the comparison. |
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> Wakelock - is a generic API for grabbing a resource and not letting go |
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> of it... https://www.w3.org/TR/wake-lock-use-cases/ It's mostly used |
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> in mobile apps, but on the desktop it's used to disable the screensaver |
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> while a long video is playing. |
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This is the kind of information that it would be useful to have in a |
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central place (WiKi), at least for USE variables that are bound to |
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have a global impact on the system. |
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> If you can do without Necko-Wifi and Wakelock, you don't need dbus. |
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> Let me know off-list if you need any help custom-building Pale Moon. |
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> You can also join the Pale Moon web forum https://forum.palemoon.org/ |
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> The linux section is https://forum.palemoon.org/viewforum.php?f=37 |
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Thanks. |
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I tried Pale Moon once, but I think it had the same problem as Firefox |
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regarding cpu use, namely with youtube. |
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> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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+1 |
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Cheers |
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Jorge |
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