Bloggy

Well I’ve been working a little on a pyblosxom blogging tool for me to use while in KDE. I’ve named it Tacky, although it has no relation to clee‘s Tack blogger.

Click for a screenie.

It’s not real advanced or anything, and probably never will be. I just wanted to be able to quickly post blogs while in KDE, but with more features than tack.

Notes:

• Hitting the Post button will quit the application if it succeeds.
• You need to configure the program and give it the path to pyblosxom’s data directory first.
• It has syntax highlighting using a hand-coded (read: sucks) munger to keep the footprint small.
• Don’t ask about the logo, it’s supposed to be a pyblosxom flower with a push-pin or something.
• The program uses kconfig_compiler, which means KDE 3.2 or above. It compiles while using unsermake, but using automake doesn’t generate the correct files for me for some reason. I think this may be the first time I’ve ever used a program that worked for unsermake and didn’t work for automake. Patches are accepted for that problem. ;-)

You can download it from my University of North Florida webspace.

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I was reading JWZ’s blog, and came across him posting about his experiences reporting a GIMP bug.

------- Additional Comment #1 From sven@gimp.org 2004-07-02 11:08 -------
Use a stable version then or at least use the latest development version.
Submitting bug reports for outdated development versions is rather rude behaviour.

------- Additional Comment #2 From Jamie Zawinski 2004-07-02 14:02 -------
Outdated?  I downloaded it *two weeks ago*!  It was the latest released
development version as of June 13.

------- Additional Comment #3 From Michael Schumacher 2004-07-02 14:39 -------
Well, development releases are outdated when the next commit to CVS happens...

It must suck to be Jamie. I would have at least asked him to run valgrind on it or said, “Yeah, we know” or “It’s fixed” as appropriate.

Maybe KDE development is slower paced, but I can’t think of too many times when 2 weeks made a program useless for debugging.

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