Text input boxes with scripts and KDE

[Joel Hammer]

I am writing some bash scripts. They will run in the background and when
they detect certain conditions they will activate and do certain useful
things.

I would like to be able to let these scripts send popup messages to the user
and to allow the user to enter text for the program to process.

I am using X windows and KDE.

Is there a way to do this? If not with bash, can perl do this?

Thanks,
Joel