Detect new available names in bus

[Thiago Macieira]

On Monday, 14 February 2022 14:51:48 PST Sergio Costas wrote:
> I want to detect if the user has installed a service that offers the
> well-known name "org.gnome.ArchiveManager1" (usually it is offered by
> file-roller). I can do a call to "NameHasOwner()" and it will return
> TRUE if that name is registered, even if the service is not active
> (because it is launched on demand), or FALSE if it isn't available
> (because the package "file-roller" isn't installed).

If the service is activatable, you can use ListActivatableNames in the bus.

On my system:
$ qdbus org.freedesktop.DBus / ListActivatableNames | grep -F org.gnome
org.gnome.Identity
org.gnome.OnlineAccounts
org.gnome.keyring.SystemPrompter
org.gnome.keyring.PrivatePrompter

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