Writing simple visual front ends to shell scripts for ubuntu

Justin Kelly linuxppc at gmail.com
Mon Sep 12 23:03:02 UTC 2005


Thanks All for your helpful replies

looks like i'll be using zenity for the Ubuntu scripts and kdialog for
the Kubuntu scripts

Thanks again

Cheers

Justin Kelly

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On 9/13/05, Jim Richardson <warlock at eskimo.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 22:51 +1000, Peter Garrett wrote:
> > On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 11:19:35 +0100 (BST)
> > Paul Sladen <ubuntu at paul.sladen.org> wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Justin Kelly wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello Justin,
> > >
> > > > also Zenity looks to be based on gtk - would Zenity work in Kubuntu?
> > >
> > > There is something called 'kommander':
> > >
> > >   http://www.kde.me.uk/index.php?page=kommander-tutorial
> > >   http://kommander.kdewebdev.org/
> > >
> > > which is Qt based and I believe does roughly the same thing.
> > >
> > >     -Paul
> >
> > kdialog (seems to be installed with kubuntu-desktop)
> >
> > Peter
> 
> 
> there's also kaptain, a qt based front end builder for CLI commands.
> It's interesting. I like zenity better, but they are slightly different
> tools, although you can use kaptain for the same things as zenity. (I
> also use GNOME here, so tend to bias towards gtk2 apps)
> 
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