Drivel 3.0.0 (current SVN trunk) is now ready for GTK+3.0. libegg has gone, there is one remaining issue with the GtkRecentChooser replacement. libgnome and libgnomeui are going away too and these have been dropped from drivel (therefore bonobo has gone too). gtksourceview has been migrated from 1.0 to 2.0. GtkSpell now correctly finds all supported dictionaries and a whole load of console messages about invalid casts etc. have been fixed. There is no libglade anymore, it's GtkBuilder throughout. Essentially, everything needed to bring drivel up to date with GTK+3 is in place.

Problems.

1. The libsoup2.2 -> libsoup2.4 transition is a mess. Some of it works but the libsoup2.2 code that has been added to drivel needs to be dropped and a genuine 2.4 interface created. I'm not that familiar with this side of drivel - I'm hoping others have more expertise debugging the actual network / XMLRPC / Soup connections between drivel and sites like livejournal. Any libsoup migration experts out there?

   
   

   • MT support

     
     Current SVN trunk can use MovableType (MT, Wordpress, Serendipity) although a few niggles remain (categories work in some MT and not others). Serendipity cannot post. Invalid request payload: xmlrpc element PARAM cannot be child of PARAM, so that's libsoup too.
   
   

   • Blogger 1.0

     
     Support appears working, albeit with a few changes I've just made.
   
   

   • Advogato support

     
     Appears to work fine. http://www.advogato.org/person/codehelp/
   
   

   • Atom/Blogger 2.0 support

     
     Really not sure on this one:
     

     (drivel:32119): Drivel-WARNING **: parse_xml_journal_list: XML is not a
     
     <feed>

     - so libsoup again but it's quite possible that this error hides other errors too.
   
   

   • LiveJournal

     
     Here are the real problems. LJ didn't work with (the unreleased) 2.1.1 either and it fails in the same way with 3.0.0. "Could not understand server
response." and lots of complaints about syntax errors on the console.


2. Removing an account causes a crash - somehow the combo_box is not registering the item as active until reselected. I've got a fix that prevents the crash but that's going to be annoying. Watch for:
   

   Drivel-Message: login_name_active = -1
   
   
   
   (drivel:31084): Drivel-CRITICAL **: remove_username_cb: assertion
   
   `login_name_active > 0' failed

   Any GTK+3.0 gurus who can help with that one - much appreciated.


3. GtkRecentChooser is not updating itself when a draft is saved.

debcheckout still has the old GNOME details until 3.0 is uploaded, so the SVN details at SF are:
svn co https://drivel.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/drivel drivel
SF homepage:
http://drivel.sourceforge.net/
Dev mailing list (for bugs and patches)
http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/drivel-list
Or just send me the patches direct (email details in the source files).
_{posted with 2.0.4}

If you want to test all the various clients, you'll need wordpress, movabletype-opensource and serendipity installed as Debian packages (and configured) and accounts at advogato, livejournal and blogger.

So, dear lazyweb, anyone got some ideas?