inz's blog

We had a lunch meeting with bergie, tigert, rambo and mdk. Among other fun stuff, we talked about some ideas for maemo-blog:

• make the "engine" a dbus service and separate UI
• The DBus API should provide at least the following
• getting a list of configure blogs
• getting a list of posts in a blog
• getting a list of categories in a blog (preferably with post counts, if possible)
• creating categories (if supported by the blog API)
• creating posts to a defined blog
• creating posts to the default blog
• upload media (preferably through gnome-vfs URI's in the post content to keep us indenpendent of network, cache network/bluetooth files locally?)
• The UI should also have a DBus API for the following
• Open a "prepared" item in editor for posting
• Show a "choose blog" -dialog for posting
• Finally implement the UI changes proposed by tigert
• Clean up the editor (preferably as a widget in it's own library)
• Replace category menu with tag cloud (needs tag cloud widget)

I was planning on making the post query/sending functions quite generic, so the user would list the fields they're insterested, something like this:

org.maemo_hackers.maemo_blog.get_posts(string:blog_id,string:field1[,string:field2...]);
org.maemo_hackers.maemo_blog.send_post(string:blog_id,string:field1,:field1_value[,string:field2,:field2_value...]);
 

The latter would require fields "title" and "description".