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.

Happy Thanksgiving to those BloGTK users in the US of A!

BloGTK 2.0 is steadily being refined, so if you’ve installed from the PPA you’ll get some crucial bug fixes next time you update your system. If you’ve installed from the tarball, there’s an updated download you can install that fixes some critical bugs in Fedora and other distributions.

There’s also some very exciting stuff that’s coming down the road for the next version of BloGTK 2.0. Thanks to a new BloGTK contributor, there’s a patch out there that adds support for Picasa uploads right from BloGTK. Just insert a local image on your computer and hit the upload version, and the new patch will automatically upload your images to Picasa, change the links over, and post your blog entry. It’s a completely seamless experience.

Image uploading is just one feature planned for the future of BloGTK. There are other great new features coming that will make BloGTK even better. Keep checking back here for more news as development pushes forward.