Hopefully, someone who breathes, eats, and sleeps KDE software will stumble across this and start thinking a little.

Blogilo, formerly Bilbo Blogger, a program written originally FOR KDE has now been absorbed INTO KDE. Because it’s become so tightly integrated into that desktop, it won’t run properly outside that environment (and from what I’ve seen, it doesn’t always run properly within the environment either).

The solution is to extract it and make it a 100-percent functional stand-alone program.

Perhaps converting it to a Qt4 program to keep the nice display but it’s blogging software after all and should use standard Linux spell checking libraries. It should update the blog and terminate that operation, once completed instead of sitting there, forever updating the blog.

It looked so good before KDE absorbed it. Now, it’s more “crap-with-a-pretty-face” than anything else. I suppose that’s because nobody who matters in the KDE world takes care of it.

Oh well. Another day. Another gripe.