Bug 111388

Summary:	wish: kdialog should accept preformatted text, and from stdin
Product:	[Applications] kdialog	Reporter:	Richard Neill <kde>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Brad Hards <bradh>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	psychonaut, yg
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Mandriva RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	117452

Description Richard Neill 2005-08-24 00:21:38 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.4.2)
Installed from:    Mandriva RPMs
OS:                Linux

Two ways kdialog could be improved:

1)It should be able to accept text from stdin, eg "fortune | kdialog --msgbox -"
(gnome-dialog and Xdialog can both do this)


2)It should have an option --dont-double-newlines. Currently, if the text contains 
a sequence of one or more newlines, kdialog converts these to exactly 2 newlines.
i.e.  \n  or \n\n or \n\n\n   all become <br><br>.
This is sensible behaviour most of the time, but not always, especially if the text is dynamic, and 
therefore not known to the author of the script.

2b)It should  (perhaps) have an option --nowrap which would prevent line wraps from occurring.


A good example of this would be to display a fortune when the user logs in,  (via .kde/Autostart). 
The text from fortune is already preformatted, and the result looks ugly.

Comment 1 Yves Glodt 2008-11-13 12:47:33 UTC

In the meantime, is there a way to get text from stdin ?

I would like to make kdialog show firebird's gbak log

Comment 2 Yves Glodt 2008-11-13 12:54:06 UTC

It is already possible like this:

df -Th | kdialog --textbox /dev/stdin 500 250

Comment 3 Frederik Schwarzer 2008-12-06 01:46:20 UTC

*** Bug 111389 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Tristan Miller 2016-08-17 13:18:52 UTC

Yves, your pipe trick doesn't work with KDialog 1.0.

KDialog should support the standard - option to read from stdin, per Bug 175649.

Comment 5 Tristan Miller 2016-08-17 13:20:37 UTC

Sorry, in the previous comment I meant to write Bug 117452.  (Copy-paste error.)