Yad is fantastic! Write the core of your app in bash/curl/jq, then write a thin wrapper to invoke yad so your app is presentable to non-techie people. Also see

Yad is fantastic! Write the core of your app in bash/curl/jq, then write a thin wrapper to invoke yad so your app is presentable to non-techie people. Also see: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Zenity https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Zenity (also gtk, less features, GNOME project) In KDE/Qt domain: https://github.com/KDE/kdialog https://github.com/KDE/kdialog https://github.com/luebking/qarma https://github.com/luebking/qarma