>>       Like you I would like to get rid of Dbus. This was invented to replace the
>> own equivalents of Gnome and KDE, and I need neither Gnome nor KDE. But
>> Dbus seems to have infected every other DE. At least Xfce4.

>>       Didier

     Not a strong animosity. I think the question of designing a 
middleware should be addressed with more carefull thinking if to become 
a standard. In particular with simplicity in mind.

     For the use Xfce4 makes of it, which is the means to stop the 
session (AFAIU), I consider it overcomplicated.

     Didier