[Python] Failed to list all input-engines available to linux ibus using python

My system is Kali 2022. I am new to linux and trying to interact with IBus using a python script. I have done the following things:

1. Installed ibus using sudo apt install ibus
2. Started ibus-daemon using ibus-setup which prompt me start ibus-daemon through gui.

And then I wrote a python script to list all the input-engines available to ibus system. When I run the script I get interface not found in org.freedesktop.IBus.

Then to identify the problem, I have installed qdbus package and run qdbus in terminal as it will let users to list available services and objects, inspect interfaces. I get the following result:

org.mozilla.firefox.L2hvbWUvc2hpbWFudHRhLy5tb3ppbGxhL2ZpcmVmb3gvaXlmZWl3eW4uZGVmYXVsdC1yZWxlYXNlLTI_
:1.68
org.freedesktop.IBus
:1.69
:1.70
org.freedesktop.portal.IBus
:1.71
org.freedesktop.IBus.Panel.Extension.Gtk3
:1.72
:1.73
:1.74
:1.81
org.xfce.mousepad
:1.89
org.freedesktop.DBus


Above I can see an entry called org.freedesktop.IBus present. But when I attempt to get the objects exposed by this service, I get the following:

$ qdbus org.freedesktop.IBus

/
---->Got empty / .Supposed to expose /org/freedesktop/IBus path I guess


Also systemctl command to check ibus-daemon service's status, returns no such service running even though I've started ibus-daemon.

└─$ systemctl status ibus-daemon
Unit ibus-daemon.service could not be found.


Following is the Python script:

import asyncio
from dbus_next.aio import MessageBus
from dbus_next import BusType

async def main():
bus = await MessageBus(bus_type=BusType.SESSION).connect()
introspection = await bus.introspect('org.freedesktop.IBus', '/org/freedesktop/IBus')
ibus = bus.get_proxy_object('org.freedesktop.IBus', '/org/freedesktop/IBus', introspection)
ibus_iface = ibus.get_interface('org.freedesktop.IBus')
print("Successfully connected to IBus D-Bus service.")
# List engines
engines = await ibus_iface.call_list_engines()
print("Available engines:", engines)

await bus.disconnect()

asyncio.run(main())

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