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Blog Smarter: Drivel 1.2

Submitted by fflewddur on Mon, 2004-08-30 06:40. Bag of Software

As a summer of hacking comes to an end, what better way to celebrate than by releasing the fruits of so much late-night coding? Following three months of furious development, Drivel 1.2 has escaped to the masses. This release sports a host of new features and refinements over its predecessor, including syntax highlighting, spell-checking, enhanced music detection, a refined UI, and much more.

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HomepageSummary of new features since 1.0:

- HTML syntax highlighting (Davyd Madeley and Grahame Bowland).

- Optional in-line spell checking support via GtkSpell.

- Undo/Redo support (Davyd Madeley).

- Support the new challenge/response LiveJournal authentication method.

- Per-account autosaves.

- Use LogJam's XML file format when saving/loading drafts (Davyd Madeley).

- The Insert Link dialog now replaces selected text with a hyper-linked version of the text.

- Saves the filename of drafts so that the user isn't prompted each time she presses "Save Draft" and add a "Save Draft as..." menu command.

- Autocomplete support for the Mood control (Davyd Madeley).

- Lots of HIG work on the menus, dialogs, and alerts.

- RhythmBox support for the Music entry (Davyd Madeley).

- New and improved network layer which doesn't suck.

- Abstracted blog API, should make it easy to support multiple blog systems in the future.

- Support for EggRecent.

- Added a "Drivel journal draft" mimetype.

- Redesigned the Friends dialog.

- Replace the RSA's reference MD5 implementation with a free one.

- Add the GNOME Spinner to the network progress dialog.

- Make the standard error dialog conform to the HIG.

- Port the Network Progress and Insert Image dialogs to Glade.

- Gave the Insert Image and Insert Link dialogs a make-over and some HIG-lovin'.

- Added a Cancel button to the new Network Progress dialog.

- Use unique names for user pictures, prevents re-downloading the same image again and again.

- Add support for back-dating journal entries.

- Add tooltips for post options.

- Added a user manual.