Thought Outflux | Anirudh Sanjeev

One thing that I’m not too happy about with linux is the dearth of desktop blog editors for linux. Seasoned bloggers won’t be caught unawares when I through words like ecto or qumana or w.bloggar or thingamablog. I’ve tried every and I mean EVERY(maybe not the mac ones) desktop blog editor out there. The most innovative and a personal favorite was for me, Windows Live Writer, the only Microsoft software I liked apart from VCExpress. The most feature loaded was post2blog, a rather unheard of. But this is about linux blog editors. There is a little bit of choice so you don’t have to fire up firefox everytime you need to write away (unless you’re using performancing. but then again)

The First editor I tried came with a default gnome install for me. It was bloGTK, a rather full featured editor with no frills, but with all the basics. It looks like a decent gnome application, with the standard gnome icons and the smooth and easy gtk feel. I posted successfully and this is a great light editor for everyone.

BloGTK is written using Python and PyGTK, and is designed to be fast and simple to use.

BloGTK is open-source software released under the BSD license, which means that it is completely free for use.

There’s another application, the kde alternative but it’s a rather simple one lacking even the simpler features. It’s called kblogger and it’s nothing but a kicker applet, and I wouldn’t recommend it.

There’s one newer one available that I happened to see today, this one client called bleezer, that seems to be extremely promising and offers linux support and I can’t wait to try it out when I get back to kgp. It’s right now in version 0.9.7 as detailed in this post with more features being added

And then we have the all great performancing. This is what I use sometimes and am using it right now. This comes in very handy for tech blog writers, and rebloggers as there’s a very easy drag and drop feature from right within firefox. I hardly need to write something about performancing. I like it and it’s loaded with features but a small quirk is that I found the image alignment is a little annoying, but I like the notes thing, and the image alignment can be fixed by editing the html but I prefer livewriter’s image editing features.

I’ll write more about windows desktop editors, and a couple of neat links
Mark Evans’ Blog publishing tool round up
The qumana chaps write about wlw vs qumana