And we return to Meta-Blogging.
Today i submitted the changes i have made to gnome-blog, and hopefully we will see it added upstream. Also new is that the Picasa uploader will select the biggest thumbnail (up to 600px currently, changeable if preferred), and link to the original.
Here is a test:
The next thing to solve would be that it also has to scale inside the window.
To the one who asked for it, Sorry for late reply. Here are the rpms: i386, x86_64, src. Please give feedback as fit =)
So after i considered moving to Wordpress.com because they had gtk-clients and could upload pictures, i decided to do something about it.
First i found a new client, gnome-blog, witch is exactly the type of client i want. Small, and to the point. It supports all the big protocols, and wysiwyg editing with picture drag-and-drop. But once again the blogspot.com picture support was missing. So i wrote the function myself, and as you (soon) can see, it works just fine. =)
The function does exactly the same as the official web-ui client does. It uploads the pictures to a private folder on picasa, and links from there.
I will try and push the changes upstream, but the overall changes was more than just one function, due to the need of more information than the current code gave. Also its not very well documented, so i had to make my own interpretation of it.
If anyone is interested in testing this, i have made rpms, and you can give me feedback on it. Hopefully someone will add the program to wish list, and it will be packaged by someone better at this than me =)
As i was trying to set up a blogg for me to use with both personal and fedora related content, i was also on the lookout for a desktop client to use with the system. The results was rather disappointing, but i will make a short note of it for the rest of the world to see.
The systems i tried against was for the most part blogger.com. As a side note, the reason i didnt choose wordpress or blogs.fedoraproject.org is that i don't feel that the systems where configurable enough looks-wise, and therefor did not care to use those systems. I might have just missed an option, who knows.
I did a search and found, to my surprise, only two gtk-based Blogging-clients. One was BloGTK and the other was gscribble. Gscribble wouldn't work with blogger, all thou that seems too be underway.
As for BloGTK, the client is kind of buggy. Still it is quite Old (1.1), at least the one found in the repoes. It only works on the old blogger API, and that means i cant write titles, or add tags. To be fair, BloGTK is out in Version 2.0, and i tried that one too. It has support for a newer blogger protocol, but it still didn't solve the tag problem.
In conclusion, the gtk-blogger-client deal seems weak in Fedora ATM, so i guess i have to stick with the old web UI. Also, First post on fedora planet!? Yay me!