Ubuntu blog OMG! UBUNTU! has a nice review of BloGTK with some great constructive criticism.

For example, they note that the buttons on the editor toolbar can be difficult to understand. 2.0.1 will feature tooltips for all the buttons to make them easier to figure out. Plus, the insert link icon will be the system standard icon.

The review also notes two feature requests: WYSIWYG editing and Blogger tags. WYSIWYG editing is being experimented with for 2.1, and Blogger tags will come once Ubuntu updates the python-gdata library to support them. Hopefully both will be coming soon.

Thanks to OMG! UBUNTU! for the nice review.

Work is continuing on adding support for image uploads with BloGTK. In addition to the Picasa support mentioned earlier, work has begun on native uploads for blogging systems that support the metaWeblog.newMediaObject method. So far, the preliminary code is working well, although there’s a lot of work to be done to make sure it works right.

The next version (tentatively 2.1) will also hopefully be much better with error handling. Right now, when something throws an error, it’s not easy to diagnose just what happened. The next version should do better, not only giving you a better warning of errors, but also creating an error log that can be used to diagnose problems.

BloGTK is continuing to evolve, and I’m getting more and more assistance in making it better. Again, thank you to everyone who has contributed code and bug reports and feature suggestions. Every little bit helps.