KDialog Alternatives

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. MessagePop icon
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    MessagePop is a simple application designed to help you convey a message to the computer user. The program allows you to specify the message text and the other parameters from the command line.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    display a message or query in a window (X-based /bin/echo).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  3. gxmessage icon
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    a GTK-based xmessage clone.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. PyDialog icon
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    My problem was that the KDialog code is still not ported to Qt5 and it depends on various Qt4/KDE4 components. The kdialog has big dependency sizes so we made an alternate dialogs like kdialog switches, options.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
    • Qt
     
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    CocoaDialog is an OS X application that allows the use of common GUI controls such as file selectors, text input, progress bars, yes/no confirmations and more with a command-line application. It requires no knowledge of Cocoa, and is ideal for use in shell and Perl scripts (or...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  6. XRCed icon
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    XRCed is a simple resource editor for wxWidgets/wxPython GUI development which supports creating and editing files in XRC format It is written in Python and uses wxPython GUI toolkit.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Anthemion DialogBlocks is a sizer-based resource editor that quickly gets you creating professional-looking dialogs, wizards and frames for deployment on Windows, Linux, Mac or any other supported wxWidgets platform.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    create a menu to run commands.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    Xdialog is designed to be a drop in replacement for the "dialog" or "cdialog" programs. It converts any terminal based program into a program with an X-windows interface. The dialogs are easier to see and use while adding even more functionalities (e.g.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Gtkdialog is a small utility for fast and easy GUI building. It can be used to create dialog boxes for almost any interpreted and compiled programs which is a very attractive feature since the developer does not have to learn various GUI languages for the miscellaneous...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    Gtk-Stream is a tool that takes on its standard input a XML description of what your application should do (spawn a window, add/remove a widget, change a property, add a stylesheet, ...), while outputting events on its standard output.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Mac
     
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