A trip on the rusty D-Bus
Intro 🚌 D-Bus is a message bus system and standard for inter-process communication, mostly used in Linux desktop applications. Both Qt and GLib have high-level abstractions for D-Bus communication, and many of the desktop services we rely on export D-Bus protocols. Also the omnipresent systemd can be only interfaced via D-Bus API. However, D-Bus has its shortcomings — namely a lack of documentation. In this article we’ll explore how to write our own D-Bus Service in Rust and connect it to our D-Bus client....