Uploading to WordPress as draft in Drivel
2007-06-17Drivel used to be a versatile GUI blog posting application, but it is suffering bit rotting. I’ve been using it since 2005, and noticed its lack of activity at that time. Though some refresh occurred around mid-2006, that is just temporary. Too sad that Drivel looks like not reviving now; it has been unofficially abandoned. And problems likely won’t be fixed now, such as unable to cope with newest blogger API (using Google authentication), selecting multiple blog post categories and so on.
Right now the single thing that annoys me most is, Drivel always publish the post upon clicking the ‘Post’ button, and in no way can I change setting and categories before letting the cat out of the bag. If it can be published as draft, there is still chance to go to web admin interface and change necessary settings.
Thus this patch — it adds a checkbox to determine whether the post is published or not when submitting it. The patch also fixes GNOME bug#402672 I have reported (essentially making spellchecking usable again). Just apply the patch and recompile, and it’s done. BUT just for Movable Type and WordPress ONLY, I don’t have LiveJournal account so will not be making any changes for LiveJournal support. BTW LiveJournal bloggers are recommended to use LogJam anyway.
Since all bug reports will be ignored for now, I guess making it available on my own is better.
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