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Nov/06

3

Bad Bug Reporting

Here’s a perfect example of behavior that irritates me to the very core: [1589673] Text Color Bug From Alienware

Update: After the Gaim -> Pidgin rename, the old bug trackers were marked private to keep people from filing bugs in the wrong place (which would thus be ignored). For the non-developers, here is the exchange:

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Nov/06

3

gnome-blog and WordPress

gnome-blog, version 0.8 has support for WordPress blogs. However, it seems that selecting wordpress appends “wordpress/xmlrpc.php” to the URL. This results in silent failures if you enter, for example: http://coderich.net I ended up choosing Self-run Other, then entered http://coderich.net/xmlrpc.php as the URL, and everything works. Yay!

Update: Apparently gnome-blog doesn’t set the title properly with BloggerAPI. I switched to MetaWeblog in the options and now it works!

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Oct/06

31

Gaim on Slashdot Again

An article about Gaim hit Slashdot again a few days ago.

You can find the article here: A First Look at Gaim 2.0 [linux.com]

After several attempts with the linux.com comment interface (and three mispostings), I finally created this posting: Various Thoughts

The Slashdot article is here: A First Look at Gaim 2.0 [slashdot.org]

In general, when Gaim hits Slashdot, lots of users spend lots of time making lots of comments. Many of these comments represent honest questions, many are completely irritating, and a few can be very insightful.

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