<?xml version="1.0" ?> <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//KDE//DTD DocBook XML V4.2-Based Variant V1.1//EN" "dtd/kdex.dtd" [ <!-- Define an entity for your application if it is not part of KDE CVS --> <!ENTITY kapplication "<application>Blogilo</application>"> <!ENTITY kappname "&kapplication;"> <!ENTITY package "kdepim"> <!ENTITY % addindex "IGNORE"> <!ENTITY % English "INCLUDE"> ]> <book id="blogilo" lang="&language;"> <bookinfo id="blogiloinfo"> <title>The &kapplication; Handbook</title> <authorgroup> <author> &Mehrdad.Momeny;&Mehrdad.Momeny.mail; </author> <!-- TRANS:ROLES_OF_TRANSLATORS --> </authorgroup> <copyright> <year>2009</year> <holder>&Mehrdad.Momeny;</holder> </copyright> <legalnotice>&FDLNotice;</legalnotice> <date>2013-05-25</date> <releaseinfo>1.1 (4.11)</releaseinfo> <abstract> <para> &kapplication; is a blogging client for &kde;. </para> </abstract> <keywordset> <keyword>KDE</keyword> <keyword>blog</keyword> </keywordset> </bookinfo> <chapter id="introduction"> <title>Introduction</title> <para>&kapplication; is a blogging client.</para> <para>A blog client (also called blog software or blogware) is software designed to simplify the creation and maintenance of weblogs. As other specialized content management systems do, weblog applications support the authoring, editing, and publishing of blog posts and comments, with special functions for image management, web syndication, and moderation of posts and comments.</para> </chapter> <chapter id="using-kapp"> <title>Using &kapplication;</title> <sect1 id="getting-started"> <title>Getting started</title> <para>In the &kapplication; main window, you can create new posts, modify previous ones, remove them from the server as well as upload media files to the server. You can also save posts locally for later use.</para> <note><para>All of these will be available after you configure at least one blog in &kapplication;.</para></note> <para>Without any configured blog you can write and save posts locally for later use.</para> <screenshot> <screeninfo>Here's a screenshot of &kapplication;</screeninfo> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="mainwindow.png" format="PNG"/> </imageobject> <textobject> <phrase>Main Window</phrase> </textobject> </mediaobject> </screenshot> </sect1> <sect1 id="configuring-a-blog"> <title>Configuring a blog</title> <para>Blog management is available in the <guilabel>Configure &kapplication;</guilabel> dialog, and is accessible via the <menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu><guimenuitem>Configure &kapplication;...</guimenuitem></menuchoice> menu, or alternatively via the <menuchoice><guimenu>Blog</guimenu><guimenuitem>Add Blog...</guimenuitem> </menuchoice> menu.</para> <screenshot> <screeninfo>Add a new blog - <guilabel>Basic</guilabel> tab</screeninfo> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="add-blog-1.png" format="PNG"/> </imageobject> <textobject> <phrase>Add a new blog - <guilabel>Basic</guilabel> tab</phrase> </textobject> </mediaobject> </screenshot> <para> To add a blog, you simply have to insert your blog address, username and password in the corresponding fields and then click the <guibutton>Auto Configure</guibutton> button for the most popular blogging servers, such as Wordpress. It will guess your blog, and api, and then will fetch your Blog Id.</para> <para>If it fails, you can manually select your blog's API type in the <guilabel>Advanced</guilabel> tab and click <guibutton>Fetch ID</guibutton> to fetch your Blog Id, or enter your Blog Id if you know it. And if you are using a “right to left” language, select <guilabel>Right To Left</guilabel> in next drop-down list.</para> <screenshot> <screeninfo>Add a new blog - <guilabel>Advanced</guilabel> tab</screeninfo> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="add-blog-2.png" format="PNG"/> </imageobject> <textobject> <phrase>Add a new blog - <guilabel>Advanced</guilabel> tab</phrase> </textobject> </mediaobject> </screenshot> <para> You can check what &kapplication; supports for your blog in the <guilabel>Supported Features</guilabel> tab.</para> </sect1> <sect1 id="creating-new-post"> <title>Creating a new Post</title> <para>To create a new post, in the main window, you can click on <guibutton>New Post</guibutton> toolbar button or under the <guimenu>Post</guimenu> menu, or simply press <keycombo action="simul">&Ctrl;<keycap>N</keycap></keycombo> (its shortcut).</para> <para>A new/empty post is created, and you can write, and configure it, and then submit it to your blog.</para> <para>The &kapplication; main window is divided into two sections, Composer and Toolbox.</para> <sect2><title>Composer</title> <para>In the Composer section, you have a text field with the label <guilabel>Title</guilabel>, where you can write the title of the post. Below it, you have three tabs to edit your post in several ways. The first is a Visual Editor: it is a WYSIWYG editor and you only need to use the icons to format your text. The next tab is an &HTML; editor, where you have a syntax highlighted text editor to edit the &HTML; code of your post. And on the last tab, you can preview your post with your blog style, before submitting it to the server.</para> </sect2> <sect2> <title>Toolbox</title> <para>The Toolbox has four sections:</para> <orderedlist> <listitem> <para>Blog Posts</para> <screenshot> <screeninfo>Blog Posts</screeninfo> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="toolbox-1.png" format="PNG"/> </imageobject> <textobject> <phrase>Blog Posts</phrase> </textobject> </mediaobject> </screenshot> <para>In this section, you can fetch the latest posts from the server.</para> <para>Double click on a post entry to load it into the composer and modify it, or select a post and use the relevant button to remove it from the server. </para> </listitem> <listitem> <para>Post Categories</para> <screenshot> <screeninfo>Post Categories</screeninfo> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="toolbox-2.png" format="PNG"/> </imageobject> <textobject> <phrase>Post Categories</phrase> </textobject> </mediaobject> </screenshot> <para>In this section you can select categories and tags for your post. Tags must be comma separated.</para> </listitem> <listitem> <para>Post Options</para> <screenshot> <screeninfo>Post Options</screeninfo> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="toolbox-3.png" format="PNG"/> </imageobject> <textobject> <phrase>Post Options</phrase> </textobject> </mediaobject> </screenshot> <para>Here you can select options for the currently active post in the composer such as <guilabel>Feedback</guilabel> options (for example, if visitors can leave a comment for this post or not), select a publish date, or a title to use for a permalink of the post (for Wordpress blogs only).</para> </listitem> <listitem> <para>Local Entries</para> <screenshot> <screeninfo>Local Entries</screeninfo> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="toolbox-4.png" format="PNG"/> </imageobject> <textobject> <phrase>Local Entries</phrase> </textobject> </mediaobject> </screenshot> <para>And in the <guilabel>Local Entries</guilabel> section, you can double click on an entry to load it into the composer, or you can remove it from disk.</para> </listitem> </orderedlist> </sect2> </sect1> <sect1 id="uploading"> <title>Uploading a Media file to the server</title> <para>To upload a file to the server, use <menuchoice><guimenu>Blog</guimenu> <guimenuitem>Upload Media...</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. You are then asked to select a file from your disk. The media upload dialog will be displayed:</para> <screenshot> <screeninfo>Upload Media</screeninfo> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="media-upload.png" format="PNG"/> </imageobject> <textobject> <phrase>Upload Media</phrase> </textobject> </mediaobject> </screenshot> <para> If your blog API supports media uploading, you have 2 options here, and if not, there is just one and it's &FTP; server.</para> <para>You can preview your desired file here (if preview method available), and enter its name on the server. And then click <guibutton>Upload</guibutton>. </para> <para>If you want to upload to an &FTP; server, the absolute path of the folder is required. And you have to enter a &URL; to use for identifying the link of the file on the server.</para> </sect1> </chapter> <chapter id="menu-reference"> <title>Menu Reference</title> <sect1 id="menus"> <title>Menu Items</title> <variablelist> <varlistentry> <term><menuchoice> <shortcut> <keycombo action="simul">&Ctrl;<keycap>Q</keycap></keycombo> </shortcut> <guimenu>File</guimenu> <guimenuitem>Quit</guimenuitem> </menuchoice></term> <listitem><para><action>Quit</action> &kapplication;</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><menuchoice> <guimenu>Blog</guimenu> <guimenuitem>Add Blog...</guimenuitem> </menuchoice></term> <listitem><para>A quick way to add a new blog.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><menuchoice> <guimenu>Blog</guimenu> <guimenuitem>Upload Media...</guimenuitem> </menuchoice></term> <listitem><para>Open Media uploader, to upload files such as images to blog or &FTP; server.</para> <note><para>Only MetaWeblog and MovableType and Wordpress APIs support media uploading function.</para></note> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><menuchoice> <shortcut> <keycombo action="simul">&Ctrl;<keycap>N</keycap></keycombo> </shortcut> <guimenu>Post</guimenu> <guimenuitem>New Post</guimenuitem> </menuchoice></term> <listitem><para>Create a new and empty post.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><menuchoice> <shortcut> <keycombo action="simul">&Ctrl;<keycap>S</keycap></keycombo> </shortcut> <guimenu>Post</guimenu> <guimenuitem>Save Locally</guimenuitem> </menuchoice></term> <listitem><para>Save current post locally.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><menuchoice> <guimenu>Post</guimenu> <guimenuitem>Submit...</guimenuitem> </menuchoice></term> <listitem><para>Open the Submit post dialog, to submit the current active post to the current blog.</para> <para>In submit post, you can select if this post should submit as a draft or not. And additionally, whether as an edit of the current post, or as a new post. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><menuchoice> <shortcut> <keycombo action="simul">&Ctrl;<keycap>T</keycap></keycombo> </shortcut> <guimenu>Settings</guimenu> <guimenuitem>Show Toolbox</guimenuitem> </menuchoice></term> <listitem><para><action>Toggle</action> displaying the toolbox.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> </variablelist> <para> Additionally &kapplication; has the common &kde; <guimenu>Settings</guimenu> and <guimenu>Help</guimenu> menu items, for more information read the sections about the <ulink url="help:/fundamentals/ui.html#menus-settings" >Settings Menu</ulink> and <ulink url="help:/fundamentals/ui.html#menus-help">Help Menu</ulink> of the &kde; Fundamentals. </para> </sect1> </chapter> <chapter id="credits"> <title>Credits and License</title> <para>&kapplication;</para> <para> Program copyright 2008-2009 &Mehrdad.Momeny; &Mehrdad.Momeny.mail; and &Golnaz.Nilieh; &Golnaz.Nilieh.mail; </para> <para> Documentation Copyright © 2009 &Mehrdad.Momeny; &Mehrdad.Momeny.mail; </para> <!-- TRANS:CREDIT_FOR_TRANSLATORS --> &underFDL; <!-- FDL: do not remove --> &underGPL; <!-- GPL License --> </chapter> <appendix id="installation"> <title>Installation</title> <sect1 id="getting-blogilo"> <title>How to obtain &kapplication;</title> &install.intro.documentation; </sect1> <sect1 id="compilation"> <title>Compilation and Installation</title> &install.compile.documentation; </sect1> </appendix> &documentation.index; </book> <!-- Local Variables: mode: xml sgml-minimize-attributes:nil sgml-general-insert-case:lower sgml-indent-step:0 sgml-indent-data:nil End: vim:tabstop=2:shiftwidth=2:expandtab kate: space-indent on; indent-width 2; tab-width 2; indent-mode none; -->