I’ve got a problem.
I loath software that is supposed to work, but doesn’t.
For some time now I’ve been using this blogger program called “Blogilo”, which began it’s life as a program called “Bilbo Blogger”, and ran under KDE/Qt4. Then, the author of the program changed it’s name to Blogilo (because, no doubt Bilbo Blogger sounded too much like Bilbo Baggins from “The Hobbit” for some junkyard dog lawyer looking to make a quick buck and/or some notoriety for himself), and gave it to the KDE people who, sadly, incorporated it into their system to the extent that it simply refuses to work properly unless you’re actually running their desktop and then, after all that, the spell checker function refuses to work.
Since I moved to Arch, LightDM-GTK, and Mate, I’ve revisited this problem for myself. I loaded my copy of the Bilbo Blogger source, compiled and installed it. This post was generated using Bilbo Blogger. It does everything that Blobilo does, (except for creating new categories) and, … wait for it … wait for it … the spell checker function works.
Now, I used to be a KDE devotee, back in the days of version 3.5, but when version 4 came out, the KDE team’s focus seemed to have shifted away from functionality and dependability to visual superficiality. For me, all their visuals just wasted processor horsepower and gobbled-up precious memory.
Now, in the computer world, it seems that you can be a mother-raping, father-murdering, family-dog molesting, drug-dealing, car thief and still find acceptance out there, somewhere. However, if you criticize a Linux desktop package and you’re instantly anathema to most but especially to the people who maintain the particular desktop package you’re having an issue with. Needless to say, I’ve never been able to get any satisfaction from the KDE people. From the little bit of information I was able to find out there, that’s pretty much the case for others having similar problems.
So anyhow, I’ve got enough KDE installed to make Bilbo Blogger run and that suits me just fine. In spite of the fact that this program is written in one or more of these bizarre modular programming languages (I’m an assembly-language guy), I’m considering trying to add the category-creation function to Bilbo Blogger myself. I don’t know how successful I’ll be. I don’t like programming languages that seem to me like a bunch of boxes of FBM, if you know what I mean.
Well, let’s see if this posts to my little blog site. If it does, I’ll post my progress here, for anyone who cares 🙂
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