habacker added a comment.
In D21660#565110 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D21660#565110>, @cullmann wrote: > kio doesn't require dbus for the normal slave stuff. > It can be that it requires it for the kcookie or auth stuff. klauncher is used to launch kio slaves. In the main() function of klauncher there is a check if a DBus session bus is running (https://lxr.kde.org/source/frameworks/kinit/src/klauncher/klauncher_main.cpp#0187) . If not, klauncher is terminated. This looks like a hard requirement for DBus if kio slaves are used. REPOSITORY R289 KNotifications REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D21660 To: brute4s99, broulik, nicolasfella Cc: cullmann, habacker, aspotashev, bcooksley, apol, nicolasfella, kde-frameworks-devel, LeGast00n, GB_2, michaelh, ngraham, bruns