WTF ?

D-Bus Explorer is a Gtk# application written in C# which use Alp’s DBusSharp library to display the API of DBus services. For the big picture it’s a clone of dbus-viewer but with a Gtk interface.

A little screenie :

Features and what is missing

Features :

• Viewing of a D-Bus service’s methods
• Selectable bus
• Description of the method’s prototype with, both, a standard and a C#-ish syntax
• A (what I hope to be) clean interface
• Gtk# GUI

What is missing/buggy :

• For the moment the parsing is still pretty slow so don’t get impatient for big services like Hal
• Apparently some services aren’t showing up (bad introspection data ?)
• Only methods are displayed in this release but signals and properties will be added soon
• No way to call a method and see the result, this will be added later too

In short don’t expect too much from this release apart from a nice viewing of your DBus services API .

Download

Grab the tarball here : http://netherilshade.free.fr/mono/dbusexplorer-0.1.tar.gz

Conclusion

ATM there is no website or such, so if you have a suggestion, a bug report or anything else catch me on #mono@GimpNET (look for Garuma).

Finally I would like to thanks Alp for all his suggestions and for writing a so cute D-Bus library .