There is also zenity for script ‘gui-ing‘. Easier in availability and in setup and probably in running the thing, but, rather limited in layout. Not flexible enough.

The ideal would be that you unzip a package in a folder and could immediately start building your gui program from your script and call it from within your script in a very easy, logical, human-friendly way. The xml-style/html-style tagging for building the gui is a good idea.

Like in zenity you have ‘–forms‘. It can contain all kinds of elements, but lacks a few too. Add e.g. the possibility for informational text or sth like the html ‘textarea‘ (that would be the ‘–text-info‘ in zenity) to it, with the ability to render an external text- or html-file within it that results from script calculations.

The possibility to place buttons vertically, etc…
The forms-element in zenity could become the whole gui-program in itself.
Collecting all gui-elements and actions in one gui window.
It’s also the only window with a minimize and maximize button in its title.

I’m sorry to mention more zenity than GTKdialog here.

Good explanation, your post, btw.

Here is my entry-level “gtkwialog” script. This is only a conception, but in a working condition for tests DE: XFCE.

See wiki description and deb package: https://github.com/motherZhenya/Stork-design-gtkwialog/wiki.

It looks pretty good for the bash side did you do the C coding for it?

Hello, Tony.

What I have on this topic can be found at blogs.czapski.id.au/?s=gtkdialog

Regards

Michael

Do you have the gtkdialog documentation you developed posted somewhere?