At the time of writing, Kblogger is in Alpha2 (read NOT released yet!) and has some... well.. need of love to get it going.
When you do get it going though, it's a beautiful, lightweight app that integrates nicely with KDE4 and makes blogging easy.
So how do you get past those "getting it up and running blues"? I can't offer tech support on every situation, however here's what worked for me with a blogger account and Kubuntu Jaunty (Alpha 4).
There are two main issues:
1. When trying to create an account I always got "Could not get blogs".
a. Visit your blogspot site (ie http://yourusername.blogspot.com) and log-in.
b. Click on any link (such as Create or Edit Posts) that ends in ?blog-id= and a long number. Copy that number from your browsers url bar.
c. In the "Create account" section of kblogger, click the advanced tab. Paste the number from step b above and click ok. You're ready to go! However, you'll now notice that...
2. None of the buttons appear (you know, unimportant stuff like, well, add a blog post)
Temporarily this can be worked around by adding shortcuts (settings -> Configure shortcuts) for New, Upload and Synch. Use them instead.
You're now well on your way to becoming a Web 2.0(tm) journalistic superstar! Go forth and make the mainstream media tremble!
When you do get it going though, it's a beautiful, lightweight app that integrates nicely with KDE4 and makes blogging easy.
So how do you get past those "getting it up and running blues"? I can't offer tech support on every situation, however here's what worked for me with a blogger account and Kubuntu Jaunty (Alpha 4).
There are two main issues:
1. When trying to create an account I always got "Could not get blogs".
a. Visit your blogspot site (ie http://yourusername.blogspot.com) and log-in.
b. Click on any link (such as Create or Edit Posts) that ends in ?blog-id= and a long number. Copy that number from your browsers url bar.
c. In the "Create account" section of kblogger, click the advanced tab. Paste the number from step b above and click ok. You're ready to go! However, you'll now notice that...
2. None of the buttons appear (you know, unimportant stuff like, well, add a blog post)
Temporarily this can be worked around by adding shortcuts (settings -> Configure shortcuts) for New, Upload and Synch. Use them instead.
You're now well on your way to becoming a Web 2.0(tm) journalistic superstar! Go forth and make the mainstream media tremble!
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