This one has more features (compared to gnome-blog-poster) including:

1. The ability to view recent posts.
2. Image linking (alas, no uploading).
3. A formatting menu for simple HTML formatting.
4. The ability to save drafts.
5. The ability to set the category of the post.

Some Limitations:

• The lists it creates are all unordered lists. You can manually change them into ordered lists, but there’s no menu item for creating ordered lists.
• It doesn’t appear to be able to create new categories and when loading old entries it doesn’t set the Category: drop-down menu to the category (or categories) the post is assigned to.
• The HTML formatting is inserted as raw tags (no WYSIWYG).
• No ability to assign tags to an entry that I can see.

It’s simple and limited, but seems to work well enough.

Here’s a screenshot:

Drivel Screenshot

From the screenshot you may have noticed that it messed up the list. I think this was my fault. Also, the drafts are saved locally. An option to save them to the blog as drafts so I can edit the post online from a different location later would be nice.

One final note: editing previous blog posts appears to work.

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First up is Gnome Blog. This little application is simple with a one-screen interface and no menus.

One curious item is that the docs seem to indicate that it is a panel applet, but when I installed the version in the Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) repositories it shows up in the Internet menu and acts like an application (no applet that I can see).

Here’s a screenshot:

gnome-blog-poster screenshot

I had to upload the image manually, since gnome-blog-poster didn’t do it correctly, and there are no options for assigning tags and categories to posts. Other than those, it seems to work ok for simple posts.

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Feel free to Flattr this post at flattr.com, if you like it.