Re: Emacs insists on starting dbus?

[Michael Albinus]

Jan Djärv <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello.

Hi,

> Why?  I usually configure --without-dbus, but want Gsettings.
> If we for example implement the Unity menubar thing (i.e. kind of like
> OSX menu bar at the top of the desktop), that will also use dbus.

I see your point. Well, let's do it another way.

> Must we document every feature that might use dbus?  We don't have
> control over that.

People who want to suppress D-Bus autolaunch are not very familiar with
D-Bus, in general. We shall give them some help.

D-Bus people know the problem of hanging autolaunched D-Bus sessions
over ssh connections, see the discussion in
<https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32509>. AFAICS, there is
no fix integrated yet into the D-Bus sources.

Until there is a solution on D-Bus side, we might add a configure option
--without-dbus-autolaunch. This would have the same effect as
"--without-dbus --without-gconf --without-gsettings" for now, maybe we
need to add other libraries later.

>       Jan D.

Best regards, Michael.