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Testing maemo-blogger…

This post comes from the N770 with the native tool. Hmm. (edit: Looks like it worked :)) Testing blog tools is kinda awkward when you are syndicated in at least two planets.. Sorry about that :)

Hmm.

I think I would like to see at least a few things implemented, here are some suggestions:

  • It’s nice that I can add images to the post. I am not sure if it works with my Wordpress installation though. But it would be nice if I could set a predefined maximum size that the images get scaled to. Apply a slight unsharp mask sharpening afterwards too for the nice crisp look..
  • It would be sweet if posting the blog would not freeze the whole UI, but would rather show a spinner animation and would tell me it’s going to take a bit of time..
  • I think “source view” could be accessible via a menu, it feels a bit too prominent in the UI right now. I’d rather just use the wysiwyg view most of the time - the source is a last resort and the tabs take one line off the screen.
  • It should wrap the lines (though I know this must be planned, it’s very early version anyway so its a bit unfair to complain :))

All in all, it worked, so that’s nice.

This entry was posted on Thursday, August 17th, 2006 at 15:04 and is filed under blogging, general, maemo.org, software, web. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

3 Responses to “Testing maemo-blogger…”

  1. Henri Bergius Says:
    August 17th, 2006 at 16:47

    Every time I start maemo-blog, enter my blog URL and account, it promptly crashes :-(

  2. Joe LaPenna Says:
    August 18th, 2006 at 04:41

    Henri,

    Make sure you set your blog url to “http://www.wordpress.com/xmlrpc.php” or “http://address.to/your/blog/xmlrpc.php” if you use wordpress.

    set it to “http://plant.blogger.com/api/RPC2″ if you use blogger. I also noticed, if you do use blogger, if you have more than one blog set up with them maemoblog will crash.

    Photo posting doesn’t work with blogger too, btw.

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