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On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 11:52:50PM +0000, Jorge Almeida wrote |
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> Good to know. I'm currently testing openbox without dbus-launch. No |
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> problem yet. |
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> It would be great to have some WiKi pages telling what some USE flag |
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> really do to particular packages, e.g, what does it mean to run |
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> firefox without dbus. |
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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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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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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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