Scripting with kdialog has been discussed here a few times. Recently I stumbled on the fact that kdialog uses a Qt widget that can do some html. For example, I had a message that mushed version strings together that was hard to read, so
Code:
#!/bin/bash
#
vershtml='
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>version checks</title>
<style>
table, th, td {
border: 1px solid black;
border-collapse: collapse;
}
th,td {
padding: 10px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table>
<tr>
<td>firefox</td>
<td>ffcur</td>
<td>ffnew</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>thunderbird</td>
<td>tbcur</td>
<td>tbnew</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body></html>
'
# extract versions, substitute them in $vershtml
kdialog --title "versions check" --error "$vershtml" &