Boof Alternative: Drivel
While it’s taken me ages to actually start coding on my desktop blogging software application, Boof, I’m constantly on the lookout for alternative software applications. I’m always hoping to find one out there that already scratches my itch so that me duplicating the effort of all those other blogging applications wouldn’t be necessary.
But at least I figure if I don’t find a good stand-in application, I can learn the elements I like and dislike from the major (and minor) contenders. Just recently I stumbled across Drivel from a posting on Planet GNOME. This baby looks dangerously close to what I’m going for and has recently added support for blogs other than LiveJournal. I see in the feature list that they have support for Atom (which implies WordPress), spell check, and html syntax highlighting. A quick check on previous versions indicates that they already have the ability to save blogs offline.
I’m going to have to seek out an ebuild somewhere so that I can try out the new 2.x tree and see if this fills my niche. (Oh, it’s probably not going to succeed in the cross platform aspect, since it looks like it’s C heavy embedded into GNOME… but we’ll see.)
I’m excited to try it out sometime.