Drivel Blog Editor

About

Drivel is a GNOME client for working with online journals, also known as weblogs or simply ‘blogs’. It retains a simple and elegant design while providing many powerful features, including:

  • Support for LiveJournal, Blogger, MovableType, Advogato, and Atom journals (systems based off these are also supported, including WordPress and Drupal)
  • The ability to post, edit, delete, and view recent entries
  • Integrated spellchecking and HTML syntax highlighting
  • Offline composition and editing
  • Automatic recovery in the event of a crash
  • Journal system extensions, including LiveJournal security groups and MovableType categories

News

2006-08-06 - New Stable Release
A new build of Drivel (2.0.3) is available. This release adapts Drivel to some changes to the LiveJournal and Atom systems, restoring compatibility with LiveJournal, Blogger, and similar sites.

2005-06-18 - drivel-list@gnome.org
A mailing list for Drivel development and general discussion is now available. Head over to mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/drivel-list to subscribe or browse the archives.

2005-06-08 - Drivel 2.0!
Drivel 2.0 is finally available! I think the updated About section above nicely sums up the new features present in this significant release :)

Download

The recommended method for installing Drivel is to use packages provided by your GNU/Linux distribution, i.e. apt-get install drivel or yum install drivel. If current packages are not provided by your distribution, source code is available. Building Drivel from source requires the GNOME 2.6 development environment or higher.

Drivel 2.0.3 - Latest Stable Release

Archives

A complete archive of previous releases can be found at www.sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=27778.

Screenshots

The login window
Simplified journal entry
Instant-apply preferences
Advanced journal entry

Support

Questions about using Drivel should be directed to the Drivel mailing list. There is a searchable archive of old posts as well. If you’ve noticed a problem with Drivel, please report it to our bug tracking system on bugs.gnome.org.

Development

There is a mailing list for discussing Drivel’s development. Interested developers can subscribe at mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/drivel-list. General questions about Drivel are also appropriate for the mailing list.