Maemo WordPy is becoming an adult

Maemo Wordpy has come to the 1.0 version.
After several months of hard work from the last version and also several months of delays from the planned date (I needed to have some fun too), the version 1.0 beta4 has been promoted to the Extras repository.
It will be very similar to the final 1.0 version, only bugfixes will be added.

What’s new:

• New revamped UI.
• Edit posts already published.
• Livejournal support.
• Manage status of the posts.
• Picasa support (upload, and insert into a post).
• Schedule posts (Blogger and Wordpress).
• Create new categories (Wordpress).
• Support for post password and slug (Wordpress).
• Autosave posts.
• Support for launch with command line arguments (–title and –post).
• Upload multiple images at once to Flickr and Picasa.
• Remember paths to open posts, open images, etc.
• And other many minor improvements.

It has many changes in the code from the last version, practically a complete rewritten, maintaining very little of the previous code.

The most important part is the UI change with the linear screens about Antoine RJ Wright (Maemo WordPy’s designer) was spoking some time ago. Thanks Antoine!
I can add very little to his words, only say that everyone try it and let us know your opinions about the interface.

The only bad mark I would put to Maemo WordPy is the time it’s late in starting, actually 15 seconds. It’s really a problem. This problem comes because the use of python + gtk + glade, specially if you use a glade file of 7000 lines (400 kB).
I am thinking about several ways for improving this and work will be done in order that Maemo WordPy can start in nanoseconds (ok, at least in few seconds).

I would like to gather some feedback about two existing features that could be deleted in Maemo WordPy next version:

1. Preview posts: This feature while could be nice, but really doesn’t work as in your blog because the lack of CSS style. While it could support CSS, I think it isn’t worth the try, until a better thing than gtkhtml2 could be used.
2. Upload images to Flickr and Picasa: I am thinking in get rid of this part because SharePy is doing a good work in this field (and it’ll be better).
   While have this feature handy in Maemo WordPy is nice sometimes, it could remove some weight from Maemo WordPy. And the recommendation is use SharePy.

What do you think? Are you missing this features if they were deleted?

Of course, there many features to implement in future versions. You could read some of the them from the TODO list in the svn.
Also, Maemo WordPy is open to other suggestions specially if they come with some code

Try Maemo WordPy 1.0 beta4.

Of course, THANKS go to everyone who has written to me with feature requests, giving me support, etc., everyone of them is part of this release