kdbus

Kdbus is a handy D-BUS service browser designed specifically for the KDE desktop environment. It's like kdcop, but instead of focusing on DCOP, it turns its attention to D-BUS instead. The software is still in active development in the KDE SVN repository, located at /trunk/playground/utils/kdbus.

There are a few areas of kdbus that require some attention. Firstly, the GUI interface looks rather unattractive. Additionally, it only employs a subset of the D-BUS specification. For example, users are unable to read or set properties. Nevertheless, kdbus does support just enough to be able to utilize all the methods that are exported by dbus-daemon.

It's essential to note that only D-BUS objects employing org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable.Introspect can be enumerated by kdbus. However, the subset of D-BUS aware programs that implement this interface is fewer. As a result, most D-BUS apps won't be accessible with kdbus at this time.

To use kdbus, your system must meet some essential requirements, namely having KDE and D-BUS installed. You don't need D-BUS Qt bindings.

The latest version of kdbus fixes the compilation issue for dbus-0.50. Overall, kdbus is a fantastic tool for KDE users featuring an impressive set of functions to explore D-BUS services.