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Dialog > kdialog

kde dialog

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kdialog is a lot more sensible than dialog.

KDIALOG=`kdialog --title "Main title" \
  --inputbox "Enter your text"`
if [ $? = 1 ]; then
  clear
  echo "Aborted.."
  exit 0
fi
echo $KDIALOG

[edit] A real-world example

xterm -fn 9x15 -bg black -fg gray -sl 10000 -geometry 113x46+0+0 -title 'SVN Commit' -e \
svn commit -m "`kdialog --title "SVN Commit" \
 --inputbox "Enter your comment"`"

You can give it input to begin with, like this:

kdialog --inputbox "Enter your comment" "default"

[edit] Another example

xterm can take multiple commands:

cd ~/muby.programming/muby
nohup \
xterm -fn 9x15 -bg black -fg gray -sl 10000 -geometry 113x46+0+0 -title 'SVN Update' -e \
$SHELL -c "\
svn commit -m "`kdialog --title 'SVN Commit' --inputbox 'Enter your comment'`" ; \
echo 'exiting in 5' ; \
sleep 5 \
" >> /dev/null&

[edit] Application launcher

kdialog --inputbox "Run program"

With bbkeys (editing its .bbkeysrc) I did this:

[Execute] (Mod1-Control-R) {exec `kdialog --inputbox "Run program"`}

I wonder if it supports reading in a history file for a dropdown box of previous commands. At a glance I don't think it does.

But if KDE libraries have to load every time, that's rather stupid! =/