New release of lekhonee-gnome

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010 | Community, FOSS

I just released lekhonee-gnome ( desktop client for Wordpress ) v0.9. You can download the source from here or look for the rpm F-12 or F-13. 

This is a complete rewrite of lekhonee-gnome in Vala. So, it is not anymore a gtk frondend to the previous python based one. 
Around 2 weeks back mether pointed me to Vala and I started porting lekhonee-gnome. The developers from IRC room #vala helped me a lot to learn and understand the basics of this new language and solving issues while I was working on it. Later siddesh , rakesh and paragn helped me to do the autoconf/autotool things fixed.
Changes/Features:
  • By default it will open WYSIWYG editor mode , people can still edit raw HTML by clicking the “Edit HTML” button in the right hand corner.
  • Added option for of extra HTML tags (HTML Tags menu) if one is editing HTML
  • Save/Open blog posts in the local computer in plain xml format , so that you can edit them in any editor
  • the configuration file is now a keyfile
  • In the WYSIWYG editor one can do Spell check by right clicking into  ”Spelling and Grammar” submenu
  • While editing HTML one can use Spell Check box
  • There is a progress bar in the statusbar area which will give visual feedback to the user whenever it will connect to server for any task
  • The “Add Category” button is disabled in this release, will come back in the next release :)

We need more testing and please file bug reports according to that. 

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6 Comments to New release of lekhonee-gnome

pankaj
April 6, 2010

Just a small question, did you port this to vala just a learning experience to try vala or is there some other reason too. It’d be great if you could write a small post about your vala experience, as use of vala is quite less afaik, and i guess many would like to know more about it from a first hand experience

Aanjhan
April 7, 2010

I would like to know about why you moved to vala as well. Please do blog/comment on it.

sankarshan
April 7, 2010

@Aanjhan – as far as I know he rewrote in Vala because he could :) (and, he wanted to learn Vala while at it but that’s purely collateral profit)

it-mutant
April 13, 2010

Ok, I can test it and post results in my blog. When I can see this release in Ubuntu repo? Why you port this to vala from GTK?

kd
April 14, 2010

@it-mutant: Thanks, I mailed the Ubuntu package maintainer, but no reply yet:( It is still in Gtk only, previously I was using PyGtk (aka python as language ), now I am using vala as programming language ie. pure Gtk using C :)

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