Development on BloGTK 2.0 has been very slow lately as my day job has taken priority and I’ve been dealing with an annoying problem with the account settings panel. The good news is that the code is now working (but needs more testing to be sure), and I can move on to adding more polish.

BloGTK 2.0 will use RSD introspection to try and configure most of the settings to a blog with nothing more than the address. That means that most users won’t have to worry about endpoints, blog IDs, or picking the right API. Even though BloGTK is geared towards more technical users, that saves a lot of guesswork.

In WordPress news, WordPress 2.6 is out. Those of you who are upgrading will not have a problem with BloGTK, but if it is a new install, you will need to activate XML-RPC in the settings to use BloGTK or another remote blogging tool.

Finally, once BloGTK 2.0 is in a semi-feature complete state, I’ll be putting the code up in a public Subversion repository for testing. The old BloGTK was written in a time where version control was a major pain—finally I’ve done the right thing and started using an internal Subversion repository for development.

As before, there’s no definitive ETA for release. I was hoping to have something in time for the Ubuntu 8.10 release, but that looks doubtful. With BloGTK, I pushed the app out the door, and made a lot of rookie mistakes and poor design decisions. I want 2.0 to be more polished and professional. That means taking the time to try to get it right before letting it loose.