KDialog is a utility for displaying dialog boxes from shell scripts or command line. It allows creating message boxes, input boxes, password dialogs, and more. As a lightweight alternative to Zenity or Yad, it integrates well into KDE desktop environments.
KDialog is a useful utility for creating and displaying graphical dialog boxes from shell scripts or the command line. It is designed to integrate well with KDE desktop environments and applications.
Some of the dialogs that KDialog can create include:
KDialog allows controlling various aspects of the dialogs such as window modality, text, buttons shown, default values, and more. The output can be retrieved to use in scripts.
As a lightweight utility, KDialog provides an alternative to tools like Zenity or Yad for scripting graphical dialog boxes on KDE. Since it integrates with KDE, it looks and feels very consistent. It can be handy for system administrators, developers, or advanced users looking to create simple graphical interfaces for shell scripts and command line tools.