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+author: einar
+categories:
+- KDE
+- Linux
+comments: true
+date: "2009-03-17T15:58:07Z"
+slug: bilbo-blogger
+tags:
+- blogging
+- KDE
+- Linux
+title: Bilbo Blogger
+disable_share: true
+wordpress_id: 574
+---
+
+Mtux, of [choqok](http://choqok.ospdev.net) fame, along with another person, has written [Bilbo Blogger](http://bilbo.gnufolks.org/), a blogging utility for Blogger or any blog that supports Blogger1.0, MetaWeblog, and MovableType APIs (EDIT: also GData). It is based on the KDE4 libraries and it includes a WYSIWYG editor, an HTML editor, and a Post Preview function that can even fetch your blog's CSS to render the entry and see how it looks. 
+
+It's not released yet, but for the daring, you can actually try and compile it. You need to check out and install the blogging library (BlboKBlog) first:
+
+{{< highlight cpp >}}git clone git://gitorious.org/bilbokblog/mainline.git bilbokblog
+cd bilbokblog
+mkdir build; cd build
+cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix` ../
+make{{< / highlight >}}
+
+followed by `make install` as root or using `sudo`.
+
+Then, you need to check out the actual application:
+
+{{< highlight cpp >}}git clone git://gitorious.org/bilbo/mainline.git bilbo
+cd bilbo
+mkdir build; cd build
+cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix` ../
+make
+{{< / highlight >}}
+
+Again, a `make install` will do the trick.
+
+After that, you can start the application and create a new blog (see the[ screenshot section on Bilbo's web page](http://bilbo.gnufolks.org/screenshots/)), and the program will try to figure out what is needed automatically. Neat. After that, you can just start writing entries.
+
+There are still rough edges, but I'm actually quite happy because I dislike blogging with a browser, especially since Konqueror is always a second-class citizen when it comes to Wordpress support, and I don't want to use Firefox. As a matter of fact, this entry was written using Bilbo. So, hats off to the two developers!