In a previous article I have shown how to handle the D-Bus resources provided in general and in particular by the Konsole and Yakuake D-Bus services, and take advantage of them in a Bash script. This time we will explore more services that provide useful features to embed in our Bash scripts.
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In a previous article I introduced the DBus technology and provided some examples built around the Klipper service to integrate the clipboard area within our scripts.
Speaking about the several ways that a Linux system offers to users to create custom automation, there is a software technology that hides under the hoods of modern desktop environments, D-Bus. To make parallelism, in the same way we use piping | the output from a shell command to the input of another, we might altogether find interesting to get some info from an application running on our DE, no matter if it is a GUI application or an application running in the background, and use it in our scripts.
This third part is dedicated to another set of constrained choice dialogs, useful to drive the user among a discrete number of options and easier handling certain input data in our scripts. Besides the file dialogs seen in the second part, Kdialog offers menus, with single and multiple-choice, and particular input dialogs which may return date, a color or a system icon.
In a previous article I introduced Kdialog and the whole set of output dialogs provided. In this second part, we will see how to show and handle some input dialogs from the command line.
