KDialog AlternativesShells and other similar apps like KDialog

KDialog is described as 'Kdialog allows you to display dialog boxes from shell scripts. The syntax is very much inspired from the "dialog" command (which shows text mode dialogs)' and is a Shell in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to KDialog for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and Python apps. The best KDialog alternative is Zenity, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like KDialog are Modern Message Box Generator, Glade, Yad and wxFormBuilder.

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  1. Zenity icon
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    Zenity is a tool that allows you to display GTK dialog boxes in commandline and shell scripts.

    22 Zenity alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
    • Zenity is the most popular Linux alternative to KDialog.

    • Zenity is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to KDialog.

    • Zenity is Free and Open SourceKDialog is also Free and Open Source
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    Generates a customizable "Task Dialog" box - a more modern version of the old Windows message box.'

    20 Modern Message Box Generator alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • Modern Message Box Generator is the most popular Windows alternative to KDialog.

    • Modern Message Box Generator is Free and Open SourceKDialog is also Free and Open Source
  3. Glade icon
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    Glade is a RAD (Rapid Application Development) tool to enable quick & easy development of user interfaces for the GTK+ toolkit.

    17 Glade alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • Glade is the most popular Mac alternative to KDialog.

    • Glade is Free and Open SourceKDialog is also Free and Open Source
  4. Yad icon
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    Yad (yet another dialog) is a fork of Zenity with many improvements, such as custom buttons, additional dialogs, pop-up menu in notification icon and more. It's useful for creating quick and easy GUIs for shell and batch scripting.

    22 Yad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
  5. wxFormBuilder icon
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    wxWidgets is an excellent framework that enables the creation of multi-platform applications with and without a graphical user interface. There are several applications that help create dialogs visually, even so, some practical problems have led me to start the development of a...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. wxDev-C++ icon
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    wxDev-C++ is an extension of Bloodshed Dev-C++ by Colin Laplace et. al. This program helps you to create dialogs and frames for wxWidgets visually using a form designer.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Bloodshed Dev-C++
     
  7. easybashgui icon
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    Bash functions library for *BSD and GNU/Linux that aims to give simple GUI functions using yad, gtkdialog, kdialog, zenity, Xdialog, (c)dialog, whiptail or bash builtins depending on KDE or GNOME running or not, Yad/Gtkdialog/Xdialog installed or not and, eventually, X...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    display dialog boxes from shell scripts.

    22 whiptail alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
  9. wxGlade icon
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    wxGlade is a GUI designer written in Python with the popular GUI toolkit wxPython, that helps you create wxWidgets/wxPython user interfaces. At the moment it can generate Python, C++, Perl, Lisp and XRC (wxWidgets' XML resources) code.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. wxSmith icon
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    wxSmith is a Code::Blocks plugin for RAD editing of wxWidgets applications.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Code::Blocks
     
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    display dialog boxes from shell scripts. Curses based. Works in console mode.

    22 dialog alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Visualwx aims to be the ultimate RAD tool, designed for c++, python, perl, ruby, lua and wxWidgets. Still there are many things to do, but we've achieved considerable progress.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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