Program allows you to display GTK+ dialog boxes from command line or shell scripts. YAD depends on GTK+ only. Minimal GTK+ version is 3.22.0
This software is licensed under the GPL v.3
Project homepage: https://sourceforge.net/projects/yad-dialog/
Example usage: https://sourceforge.net/p/yad-dialog/wiki/browse_pages/
Mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/yad-common
Some miscellaneous stuff can be found in data directory including notify-send script and simple zenity-compatible wrapper
Get git version with command
git clone https://github.com/v1cont/yad.git yad-dialog-code
Before run the standard ./configure && make && make install procedure you need to generate build scripts. This can be done by running command
autoreconf -ivf && intltoolize
You must manually run gtk-update-icon-cache after installation.
For successfully build you may need to install the following packages:
- GNU Autotools (https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/ http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/)
- Intltool >= 0.40.0 (http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/intltool/)
- GTK+ >= 3.22.0 (http://www.gtk.org) with appropriate -dev packages depending on your distro
Additionally, you can build yad with the following libraries:
- Webkit - for supporting HTML dialog (http://webkitgtk.org)
- GtkSourceView - for enabling syntax highlighting in text-info dialog (https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GtkSourceView)
- GSpell - for support spell checking in text fields (https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/gspell)