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— @joahua
So between the time I made the post this morning and now, I think her name has changed no fewer than three times… but now Tosca Indie is safely home, and photos have been taken (visible ones, too!)
No connection with grassroots publishing organisation Indymedia has been cited, although there remains the possibility that Indie is a closet media-activist-dog — only time shall tell!
I’ve got no idea why there are so many dog pictures this month, but oh well… Tori’s picking up her new puppy, Tosca, today, and here’s one of the first lot of (slightly blurry) photos taken in the store — I’m promised more are coming as soon as Tosca gets home!
Just for kicks, to see if it’s any easier than using a plain old web browser to interface with the blog!
Anyway, BloGTK is a desktop client for WordPress which runs on Linux systems. Niggly features I’ve discovered in the last 30 seconds:
It’s really little things, nothing major — the formatting tags (strong, em, etc.) work just fine on selections, which is great. It also has an inbuilt preview which (I’m 99% sure) functions using an internal rendering engine (or part of the GTK toolkit, same thing), rather than making HTTP calls. A change that’d be interesting to see (although one which doesn’t affect me directly) would be the implementation of either a WYSIWYG editor, or simply Textile or Markdown support with XMLHttpRequest being used (or something like it? I gather that’s a JavaScript thing, not having ever used it, so it mayn’t be usable like that.
Another thing that’d be nice is the implementation of keyboard shortcuts, just for text formatting stuff — so, Ctrl + B for strong and em tags, etc. And also the changing of the category display to a list of checkboxes in its own frame (or whatever the term is in desktop app interface design lingo) on the right of the posting area, instead of a dropdown — that’d allow posters to select multiple categories, more rapidly.
It’s a good simple app (sorry… I know it’s probably rather unsimple when you look at the code driving behind it, but I don’t understand any of that Python stuff, so I’m just judging on the interface), but a few niggly things mean I’d still prefer to use the native WordPress web interface.
Edit: In part to see if it does, but also because I had another thought — the absence of a “Posting…” status window is also something which could be improved, just so the user doesn’t think the application has crashed. It took a while here due to my ISP’s poor DNS performance, and had I not known why it was going slowly, I may have closed the application thinking it had crashed.
This is funny, but oh how it shouldn’t be: Articles: Installing Linux on a Dead Badger: User’s Notes, by Lucy A. Snyder
From Mark 16, NIV translation
The Resurrection
1When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices so that they might go to anoint Jesus’ body. 2Very early on the first day of the week, just after sunrise, they were on their way to the tomb 3and they asked each other, “Who will roll the stone away from the entrance of the tomb?”
4But when they looked up, they saw that the stone, which was very large, had been rolled away. 5As they entered the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side, and they were alarmed.
6“Don’t be alarmed,” he said. “You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him. 7But go, tell his disciples and Peter, ‘He is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him, just as he told you.’ “