So after installing Dapper on my new laptop (more on this in a later post) I decided to give gnome-blog a whirl. I like the idea of in-line spell checking and the panel applet looks quite nice too.

Anyway when pointing it at my blog it insists on trying to connect to http://site.domain/wordpress/xmlrpc.php and there seems to be no way in the configuration GUI to persuade it that my blog lives at http://site.domain/xmlrpc.php

Looking around launchpad and bugzilla.gnome brings up the following bugs.

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gnome-blog/+bug/44867

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167499

It seems fairly sensible to me to just change xmlrpc_url in the code so that it doesn’t make any assumptions about the location of xmlrpc.php. But it’s probably not possible to do without breaking at least some peoples currently working gnome-blogs.

Anyway for the moment you can always hack .gconf/apps/gnome-blog/%gconf.xml by hand to make it work.