I decided to make a 0.2 release of D-Bus Explorer which contains, among others improvements, the fix for the speed caveat.

D-Bus Explorer is a GTK+ application written in C# which use NDesk’s managed D-Bus library to display the API of D-Bus services.

Here is the ChangeLog :

• Fixed the speed caveat with the XML parsing.
• Use XmlTextReader for fast and memory-efficient parsing.
• Added support for D-Bus property and signal.
• Reorganized the type parser to behave faster and more accurately.
• Added --dump command-line option to write to the console the Introspection XML data.
• Other miscellaneous bug fixes and source reorganization.

Here is the link to the tarball : http://www.ndesk.org/archive/dbus-explorer/dbus-explorer-0.2.tar.gz.

This release doesn’t ship anymore with Managed D-Bus so you have to install NDesk.DBus >=v0.6 and NDesk.DBus.GLib >=v0.4 either via your packages or manually (be careful to have a recent version as prior Managed D-Bus releases are not working well with D-Bus Explorer).

Next version will bring some appreciable things like language-customizable prototypes (instead of only the current C#-ish representation) or the possibility to search/sort the displayed API.

Enjoy !