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author: einar
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categories:
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- KDE
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- Linux
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comments: true
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date: "2009-03-17T15:58:07Z"
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slug: bilbo-blogger
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tags:
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- blogging
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- KDE
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- Linux
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title: Bilbo Blogger
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disable_share: true
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wordpress_id: 574
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---
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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.
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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:
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{{< highlight cpp >}}git clone git://gitorious.org/bilbokblog/mainline.git bilbokblog
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cd bilbokblog
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mkdir build; cd build
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cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix` ../
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make{{< / highlight >}}
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followed by `make install` as root or using `sudo`.
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Then, you need to check out the actual application:
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{{< highlight cpp >}}git clone git://gitorious.org/bilbo/mainline.git bilbo
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cd bilbo
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mkdir build; cd build
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cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix` ../
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make
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{{< / highlight >}}
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Again, a `make install` will do the trick.
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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.
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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!
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