[openbox] Pipe-menu refresh

Brian Mattern rephorm at rephorm.com
Fri Feb 22 15:14:44 EST 2013


On Thu, 21 Feb 2013, Ian Zimmerman wrote:

> On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:54:32 -0800
> Brian Mattern <rephorm at rephorm.com> wrote:
> 
> Brian> A few libraries that provide widgets and configuration handlers
> Brian> that they would have to write themselves (that total about 3 megs
> Brian> installed) is too "heavy" for you? I can understand not wanting
> Brian> to pull in a full kde or gnome stack, but what's wrong with a few
> Brian> smallish libraries?
> 
> For me personally, it's not the libraries - I wouldn't mind having to
> install all of Gnome's libraries, I have enough disk space for that.
> The problem is the daemons.  Gnome and KDE start daemons from the
> libraries behind your back.  So when you start a GUI program for some
> trivial task, like a calculator, even if you don't use the visual parts
> of the desktop, if it's linked to the Gnome libraries it will start a
> daemon.
> 
> And if "configuration handlers" includes gconfd - no thanks.

We were discussing xfce, not gnome. xfburn has no dependencies on
gconfd, and the only daemon it appears to depend on is dbus. If you have
a problem with dbus, then I have nothing further to say.

Brian


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