QTM - Blogging client for Qt 4

**Matt Smith** · 10th March 2007, 22:36

Hi everyone,

I'm the author of a Qt4-based blogging client called QTM (home page here). I've been developing it on and off since 2004 and seriously since January last year. It uses the same XML-RPC APIs as Movable Type and Wordpress, so you can probably use it if you've got a Wordpress.com blog. I use it on my own MT blogs, including A Qt Blog.

Anyway, I've just put out a new beta. The new version allows you to generate posts using templates. This is a bit like the Quickpost feature on MT (and QTM also has a plain Quickpost feature), but if you post a lot of formulaic entries (like I do at A Qt Blog), for example, you can lay it all out and it will automatically copy the URL and title in for you when you blog, and you fill out the rest and post. I've never seen this feature anywhere else.

Anyway, the project SF base is here, the home page is here, from which you can find links to downloads etc. I'd appreciate it if anyone has any bug reports or things they see that badly need fixed which I've not seen. (Plenty of people have downloaded it from KDE Apps, but hardly anyone has ever contacted me with any issues despite my email address being in the readme.)

**icefox** · 12th March 2007, 13:41

Looks nice, you should probably have screenshots hosted on your own site. With GUI applications people want to see the eye candy, the link to sf was the only site I found from a quick looking.

**No-Nonsense** · 13th March 2007, 09:33

Originally Posted by icefox

Looks nice, you should probably have screenshots hosted on your own site. With GUI applications people want to see the eye candy, the link to sf was the only site I found from a quick looking.

That is what I thought too. For a GUI application a screenshot tells more than words. Most of the time I make the decision to try out the app by the screenshot. If the GUI is messy then it won't be user-friendly and the app will probabably be programmed messy too.

It's the same with web-scripts: offer a working demo or links to sites that implement it.

For QTM: Take some more time to make a nice presentation of your app on your homepage and link to it from SF. BTW: If I select "Project -> Web Site" on SF I get to a quick hacked site taking me to http://catkin.sourceforge.net/. Maybe link to http://qtm.blogistan.co.uk/ directly?

-Jens

**Matt Smith** · 20th March 2007, 08:23

Thanks for reminding me about the project website; I've corrected it now (having found the option to change it buried in SF's admin interface).

**Matt Smith** · 20th March 2007, 20:16

By the way, I've just put out a release candidate of v0.5.0 (with quickpost templates and a few bugs from the beta fixed). Source, SUSE 10.2 RPM and Mac OS X disc image available from the home page.