On: Has modern Linux lost its way? Some thoughts on Jessie

[the_why_of_y]

> Yep. D-Bus feels, honestly, like someone looked at every RPC mechanism ever invented and decided to pile all their bad parts into one thing.

You must have mixed up D-Bus with CORBA.

> It's not discoverable

Try installing "d-feet", it's a nice GUI that will show you everything that's listening on the bus and what objects and interfaces it supports.