{"id":309,"date":"2009-05-13T23:34:09","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T23:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cyberwizzard.nl\/?p=309"},"modified":"2016-03-17T21:23:39","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T20:23:39","slug":"kblogger-coming-to-kde-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cyberwizzard.nl\/?p=309","title":{"rendered":"Kblogger coming to KDE 4.3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cyberwizzard.nl\/?p=3\">previous article<\/a> I wrote about KBlogger and its nomination for a vapor-ware award. Most of the commits up until then seemed like KDE&nbsp;global search and replace changes, rather than actual work on the KBlogger application itself.<\/p>\n<p>On the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kde-apps.org\/content\/show.php?content=29552\" target=\"_blank\">Kblogger page<\/a> on kde-apps, an anouncement was made that the 3rd alpha was released in Febuari 2009. After installing and playing around for a bit, it felt more like a working blogging tool than it did before.<\/p>\n<p>The downside was the numerous features which didn&#8217;t work:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Settings autodetection leaves you hanging and makes setting up a blog account more of a guess than anything else<\/li>\n<li>If kwallet is not installed or activated (the service needs to run), kblogger crashes<\/li>\n<li>If you try to read the category list on a Moveable Type API&nbsp;site, you get a &#8216;Method not supported&#8217; error<\/li>\n<li>Reading previously posted articles works (sort of)&nbsp;unless you have media attached in which case it crashes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The biggest problem is not the continuous crashing of the application but rather that I haven&#8217;t been able to post one article on any of my sites using Kblogger &#8211; it truely is an alpha quality application, if that.<\/p>\n<p>It seems like the development is still going, even if the kde-apps page and homepage seem to be dead. Hopefully, they will work out the crashes and get it going in some form before KDE&nbsp;4.3 ships out in <a href=\"http:\/\/techbase.kde.org\/Schedules\/KDE4\/4.3_Release_Schedule\" target=\"_blank\">June 2009<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the current state this seems doubtful but according to the plans, it is still a <a href=\"http:\/\/techbase.kde.org\/Schedules\/KDE4\/4.3_Feature_Plan#kdepim\" target=\"_blank\">part of KDE 4.3 PIM-libs<\/a> &#8211; although it was on the schedule for 4.0, 4.1 and 4.2 as well.<\/p>\n<p>In a desperate attempt to make the KDE&nbsp;4.3 deadline, the current Kblogger feature plan seems to have <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.kde.org\/?l=kde-commits&amp;m=123626303524489&amp;w=2\" target=\"_blank\">dropped support for media management<\/a>. This means that a lot of the current issues become a problem for later on and the core of the program (the blogging engine) is the only thing that needs to be fixed.<\/p>\n<p>Lets hope this June we get a pleasant surprise but I am currently putting my money on KDE&nbsp;4.4 or even KDE&nbsp;4.5 as a release platform. On the bright side, perhaps the SVN&nbsp;versions become stable enough to use in the mean time.<\/p>\n<p>On a side note, I am <a href=\"index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;catid=1:latest&amp;id=85:status-update\">still looking<\/a> for a blogging program for KDE \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a previous article I wrote about KBlogger and its nomination for a vapor-ware award. Most of the commits up until then seemed like KDE&nbsp;global search and replace changes, rather than actual work on the KBlogger application itself. 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