xdialog!

NirCmd is a small utility that allows you to do many useful tasks from command-line, without displaying any user interface: change your display settings, turn off your monitor, open the door of your CD-ROM drive, and more...

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

Show KDE dialog boxes from shell scripts

This page provides a collection of small commandline tools.

display dialog boxes from shell scripts

This is a tiny hack to display message boxes from Windows batch files and command line programs. There are many like it but the developer didn't find any that was open source, non-copyleft and had no external dependencies (.NET Framework, GTK+, etc.). It works on Windows NT 4.0 through Windows XP through Windows 10.

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.

a GTK-based xmessage clone

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 Ruby, or Python, or... etc).

create a menu to run commands

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 programming languages.

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. We would still like full compatibility with kdialog but a few options are still not finished and although this release provides many important functions. Full Python Qt5 base! Not dependent on KDE or any desktop environment.