Description: QTM is a blog management app which uses the Blogger, MetaWeblog and Movable Type APIs to submit and (in the future) edit and otherwise manage entries on a blog. Presently, however, it is possible to compose, format, preview and submit entries, in one or more categories, and edit newly submitted entries. Requires Qt v4.4 or later.
Issues:
(1) There are known to be problems with some versions of Qt's text editor widget; in the case of early 4.1.* versions, the problem is slowness, and on version 4.2 the problem is not displaying the bottom of the widget's text when a scrollbar is added. This problem is replicated in the QPlainTextEdit widget in Qt 4.4 at the time of this writing, and although this particular bug has disappeared in recent versions of Qt, the QPlainTextEdit widget is still sub-par compared to QTextEdit. As a result, I have used QTextEdit by default in the current version.
(2) When using QuickPost to copy multiple paragraphs of text from a web page into a new entry, you may find that there is no blank line between paragraphs, just a single carriage return. This may be fixed in a future release.
(3) When posting an entry, your categories may not be posted; specifically it may update the blog's category list rather than post those you chose for the entry to hand. If you find your post has not been categorised, use the "Update this post's categories" entry in the File menu.
(4) Markdown support requires an external Markdown parser, which requires Perl (there are versions for other scripting languages). On the Mac, the parser is provided in the bundle; on Linux, the QTM binary may depend on another Markdown package. On Windows, the script is provided, and you will need to install Perl yourself, and configure QTM so that it knows where to find Perl.
(Markdown support is provided, and not Textile or any other formatting, because the Markdown parser works on the command line, and the others do not. It also seems to be the most popular outside the Textpattern community. I do have an internal Markdown parser in the works and am considering porting Textile to Qt, so I may provide those features in the future.)
Any enquiries and suggestions to me at indigojo at blogistan.co.uk. Please, no requests for the normal features of blog managers like ecto - most of these are on my wish list anyway.
Packages for Ubuntu (Dapper, Gutsy, Hardy and Intrepid) are also available: put this line into your /etc/apt/sources.list (replace hardy with your version, all lowercase, if necessary):
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/indigojo/ubuntu hardy main
Packages for OpenSUSE 10.3 or later, Fedora 8 or later, and Mandriva 2008 can be found at the OpenSUSE build service; see this page for details on using your package management:
Compatibility: always opens a new window on startup when Unity is detected (to make sure the icon always appears) New feature: adding a title to an embedded image, and XHTML-friendly terminated image tags New feature: Suppress "read more" inserts from newspaper websites Improvement: less strict HTML entity detection; entity highlighting now ends with a space or a semicolon. (This is because browsers are not strict about XML validity, and will display an invalid entity as plain text, and content management systems will convert ampersands.)
1.3.1 (29th September 2010):
Bug fix: In syntax highlighting, the colour specified for colouring HTML tags was used as the background for entities at start-up due to typo
1.3 (7th Sept 2010):
* HTML Syntax highlighting, with configurable colours * Uses Qt's network manager class, which requires Qt 4.4.0
1.2 (3rd Aug 2010):
New feature: Posting of entries using HTTPS New feature: Ability to fetch existing tags on a Wordpress blog Bug fix: blogid is now always a string, as per the standard metaWeblog API (SF bug 2846390) Bug fix: was including newlines in category IDs, causing failures (SF bug 2846454) Bug fix: Checkbox values in new accounts wouldn't take Bug fix: Values written automatically when selecting a self-hosted blog type might not have taken Bug fix: Port settings now honoured Bug fix: Now only submits date and time when posting an edit when the relevant option is enabled (this had been causing posts to de-publish as a result of wrong times being sent)
1.1 (26th June 2009):
New feature: Ability to create categories (in Wordpress blogs only) New feature: Decodes XML entities such as & in category, blog and account names Improvement: Will now run Markdown from the Markdown subdirectory of the source bundle, whether QTM is built in-source or in a 'build' directory Bug fix: Now includes placeholder whenever setting the main window title (to stop console warnings when "setWindowModified" is called) Bug fix: "Allow trackbacks" setting in accounts form wouldn't keep on second account down.
1.0 (15th June 2009):
New feature: Support for Wordpress-style tags User interface: Pressing Esc closes the search widget User interface: Progress bar, which monitors progress of posting operations (only, at the moment) New feature: Save all Build system: New "confclean" target Mac: System tray icon no longer uses the Qt STI class, as it is not actually a system tray icon on the Mac but uses the dock icon Bug fix: About box didn't display version number when invoked from the Mac supermenu Bug fix: In Tidy Paste, replace single newlines with single spaces rather than just removing them Bug fix: Now fetches the first blog's categories when switching accounts Bug fix: Now fetches account attributes (allow comments, etc) when starting up (may have fixed bug where categories were not posted) Bug fix: Now sets allow comments/trackback boxes in side widget according to preferences Bug fix: Changed the shortcuts in the Insert menu to make them unique Bug fix: Fixed typo which was preventing "allow comments" working in the second account in the list
0.7.4 (28th February 2009):
New feature: Tidy paste, which tidies up multiple spaces (by reducing them to one) and single newlines in paragraphs (by removing them). Both of these are common in PDFs and probably other document formats. (HTML itself ignores both, but most content management systems don't.)
0.7.3.2 (12th February 2009):
Bug fix: Sets the default Perl location to the ActivePerl standard install path on Windows, rather than /usr/bin/perl Bug fix: Corrected enforcement of UTF-8 encoding for Markdown, so that it doesn't come out with weird characters instead of apostrophes or UK pound signs Bug fix: Disabled "strip paragraph tags" as this feature clashes with some multi-paragraph tags such as "blockquote"
0.7.3.1 (27th Jan 2009):
Bug fix: Correctly set the default Markdown script location when installing it to a "share" location
0.7.3 (24th Jan 2009):
New feature: Running Markdown before posting a new entry, with the option to strip paragraph tags
0.7.2 (20th January 2009):
New feature; Markdown support. This relies on an external Perl script, which can be installed along with QTM or not (some distributions provide it).
0.7.1.3 (8th January 2009):
Compatibility: Restored Qt 4.1 compatibility by fixing problems with compile-time isolators (#if blocks), and removing references to widgets which are not present when Qt 4.1 is used. (Doesn't affect later versions of Qt, so no new binaries, except for Ubuntu Dapper: see http://qtm.blogistan.co.uk/content/using-online-repositories#apt )
0.7.1.1 (3rd January 2009):
Bug fix: Fixed bug which caused the wrong blog ID to be sent out in XML-RPC requests after changing accounts in certain circumstances
0.7.1 (3rd January 2009):
New feature: Ability to set background and text colours in the editor, preview and console (requires Qt 4.2 at present) Improvement: Auto-sets local storage directory if there isn't one Improvement: Runs the prefs then the accounts for a first-time user if they click "Yes" in the start-up dialog (and displays "Stage [1/2] of 2" on the dialog titles) Improvement: When the category selectors are displayed, searches for categories if there are already none Improvement: Sets the status to "dirty" when changing the blogs or categories only if there is text in the main entry widget Improvement: Removed redundant EditingWindow constructor Improvement: Prepends / to the location field, as webservers require full paths (e.g. /mt/mt-xmlrpc.cgi or /xmlrpc.php, NOT just xmlrpc.php) Bug fix: Fixed crash which occurred in the accounts dialog after a new account was deleted and it was the only account Bug fix: Corrects start-up behaviour for new users, i.e. stops prompting them for prefs even after they have specified their preferences Bug fix: Now auto-refreshes blog list after using accounts dialog when there is only one account Bug fix: Failed to store auto-filled server and location details (esp. on wordpress.com sites)
In my book, a KISS application - done right - is pretty hard to beat and QTM is such an application. It reminds me a bit of the Mauku blog client for Maemo.
But there is one feature that I miss - and that is a spellchecker - iSpell, hunSpell, aSpell - for instance.
Hi !
I'm successfully using qtm with the latest package for Ubuntu Gutsy.
It work well with my home-hosted Wordpress.
However I can't get it to work with a dotclear blog. Is it supposed to be supported ?
The URL for posting to the dotclear blog is actually bizarre and it work in other blogging clients where I can post it as one line :
http://blog.ot-chine.com/index.php/xmlrpc/default
But in qtm I need to break it in a Server field and a Location field. And it fails connecting if I do so.
Also I'd like to write an article and publish it simultenaously to those 2 blogs: the Wordpress and the Dotclear. I don't think it is currently an available option.
Could those features get implemented into qtm ?
Hi there,
Apologies for the delay in replying.
Regarding posting to two separate places at a time: at the moment that's not possible, because QTM presently supports only one account at a time. When I get to implementing multiple accounts, which I hope to do in a couple of months if I have the time, that might become possible.
Regarding splitting an URL: you leave out http://, put the next bit - the host - into the server box and from /index.php onwards in the location box. I might allow the user to enter a URL in the future as that's what other clients do, but then, when doing the request, the program has to isolate the host from the item on the host anyway.
I don't think so; the protocol used to connect to the blog (XML-RPC Movable Type/MetaWeblog API) doesn't return a tree, but a list of categories in the order they were created. The best I can do is to sort them alphabetically. I'm not sure if the new Atom protocol supports what you are suggesting.
At first i have to say "Thank you" for QTM, especially for the "Ubuntu Feisty"-Bundle!
I´m using QTM with Wordpress 2.2 and it works fine. But it would be perfect with "picture upload"-function ;-) Do you planning to do so?
My second Question is about "localisation". Will there come a '.mo' - or '.po' -file for translation?
Best wishes from Vienna, Austria
Günter
Thanks. I'll consider doing the picture upload thing, perhaps in the next point release. As for translating, someone will have to volunteer to do translation as I am not confident enough in any language other than English to do a translation.
Publish the source language files (ts-files or whatever) or perhaps even better, set up a Transifex account - then let us, the users do the translations.
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In my book, a KISS application - done right - is pretty hard to beat and QTM is such an application. It reminds me a bit of the Mauku blog client for Maemo. But there is one feature that I miss - and that is a spellchecker - iSpell, hunSpell, aSpell - for instance.
Hi ! I'm successfully using qtm with the latest package for Ubuntu Gutsy. It work well with my home-hosted Wordpress. However I can't get it to work with a dotclear blog. Is it supposed to be supported ? The URL for posting to the dotclear blog is actually bizarre and it work in other blogging clients where I can post it as one line : http://blog.ot-chine.com/index.php/xmlrpc/default But in qtm I need to break it in a Server field and a Location field. And it fails connecting if I do so. Also I'd like to write an article and publish it simultenaously to those 2 blogs: the Wordpress and the Dotclear. I don't think it is currently an available option. Could those features get implemented into qtm ?
Hi there, Apologies for the delay in replying. Regarding posting to two separate places at a time: at the moment that's not possible, because QTM presently supports only one account at a time. When I get to implementing multiple accounts, which I hope to do in a couple of months if I have the time, that might become possible. Regarding splitting an URL: you leave out http://, put the next bit - the host - into the server box and from /index.php onwards in the location box. I might allow the user to enter a URL in the future as that's what other clients do, but then, when doing the request, the program has to isolate the host from the item on the host anyway.
Hi, can you add tree categories view? I very need it
I don't think so; the protocol used to connect to the blog (XML-RPC Movable Type/MetaWeblog API) doesn't return a tree, but a list of categories in the order they were created. The best I can do is to sort them alphabetically. I'm not sure if the new Atom protocol supports what you are suggesting.
At first i have to say "Thank you" for QTM, especially for the "Ubuntu Feisty"-Bundle! I´m using QTM with Wordpress 2.2 and it works fine. But it would be perfect with "picture upload"-function ;-) Do you planning to do so? My second Question is about "localisation". Will there come a '.mo' - or '.po' -file for translation? Best wishes from Vienna, Austria Günter
Thanks. I'll consider doing the picture upload thing, perhaps in the next point release. As for translating, someone will have to volunteer to do translation as I am not confident enough in any language other than English to do a translation.
Publish the source language files (ts-files or whatever) or perhaps even better, set up a Transifex account - then let us, the users do the translations.