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Open Source Wordpress client for Symbian and Maemo under development
Published by Ewan Spence at 10:54 UTC, February 22nd 2010
Wordpress bloggers will be interested in the Open Sourced blogging client being developed for Maemo and Symbian using Qt. The blog for the client can be found here, along with the relevant downloads for the latest version. The software is still being developed, but you can get the latest builds and contribute to the project at dev.nokia.wordpress.org.
To get the app running you will need to install QT on your device first (download Qt v4.6.2 for Symbian from here), before grabbing the Symbian version. These are two regular SIS files which you install in the normal way. The .deb file for Maemo is also online, and again follows the regular route for installing on your Maemo device.
We’ll be taking a close look at this client over the next few weeks to see how it stands up to blogging while on the move, but after installing it, it certainly looks the part.
News Discussion
What does it do?
At the moment, we are experiencing timeout issues with larger posts, and also currently have no spellchecker, and other functionality, but these are on the wishlist.
Another major issue is that N97 owners are hammered by the qt libraries due to the larger size of the installation, and although you can select mass storage whilst installing, the libraries still install to phone memory, causing memory low warnings on many N97 devices. This is being addressed by the Wordpress team as critical, and they are trying to reduce the overall file size.
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