Been waiting nine months for upstream to acknowledge this. See here: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/2344 and here: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/pull/3174 Apparently, gconf has not been required for quite some time.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=c87f6fddb54daa54d9a8c1dd576f025a7a914871 commit c87f6fddb54daa54d9a8c1dd576f025a7a914871 Author: Robert Siebeck <gentoo.bugzilla.2012@r123.de> AuthorDate: 2019-04-03 12:16:31 +0000 Commit: Amy Liffey <amynka@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2019-04-14 17:47:43 +0000 net-im/signal-desktop-bin: remove dependency to gnome-base/gconf Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/682412 Signed-off-by: Amy Liffey <amynka@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Robert Siebeck <gentoo.bugzilla.2012@r123.de> .../signal-desktop-bin-1.23.2-r1.ebuild | 68 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 68 insertions(+)