5. The graphical dialog provider Yad

The program Yad (Yet Another Dialog) presents Starbuntu with an extremely versatile variety of graphical dialog types and in this way enables Starbuntu to perform any dialogs within its special applications on the graphical user interface.

In Starbuntu the following dialog types provided by Yad are used:

Calendar
File Select Boxes
Forms
Lists
Multiple Tabs
Notifications
Text Entries
Text Informations

Within the particular dialog types Yad offers a multitude of formatting alternatives which can be looked up in the manual of Yad (terminal command: man yad or click here).

Please be careful in case of inserting certain special characters in Yad because some of them can lead to undesired results. In the Starbuntu applications which use Yad you may find a button called 'Hints'. By clicking on it you'll get an appropriate workaround.

The configuration file yad.conf of Yad can be found in ~/.config.

Further information on using Yad can be found in the man page of yad and in the page The buttons of YAD.

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