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Do what? Get another program's secrets? Just ask the d-bus interface for them.
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/secret-service/latest/
Alternatively, eavesdrop on d-bus when secrets are being stored or retrieved.
man dbus-monitorHuh I was under the impression that you could limit it to specific applications and dbus would tell kwallet the path of the application making the request (which could be done at least vaguely securely). But upon further investigation it just uses the "appid" that the app reports which it can apparently set to anything it wants. It's difficult to find information about this stuff though. D-bus is not very well documented at all.