Re: Re: Problem with publishing to blogger

Mike Lee writes:
 > 
 > Robert Goldman wrote:
 > > Robert Goldman wrote:
 > > 
 > > Here is a first possible bug:
 > > 
 > > I have two blogs on my pull-down menu.  If I change from the initial 
 > > value, I get put into my other blog, but the link to the web page I 
 > > wanted to blog is lost.
 > > 
 > > Interestingly, when I close the window and reopen it, the bottom bar has 
 > > remembered the new choice of blog.  So it seems that you have to have 
 > > set the blog you want BEFORE the window opens in order to get the right 
 > > behavior.
 > 
 > Thats right. It might (well is) a bit confusing. I'll explain why this 
 > is the current behaviour, feel free to comment on it.
 > 
 > The current design is like a email system or any multi account system 
 > you have. Each of the blog have their own queue with message in it. Say 
 > if I write a piece of story and I didn't finish it, but I want to blog 
 > something else. I just click on new and add a new post to it, the old 
 > post should be saved in the harddisk (if not, its a bug).
 > 
 > Then you can publish the new post while still have a draft copy of the 
 > story in the list. Currently the queue is not shared, so you have to 
 > choose the right blog before you have the draft. I think this is the 
 > desired behaviour, but I could be convinced.
 > 
 > So before you use the "blog this" context menu, you should made you you 
 > have the right blog selected. I guess we could make a popup saying which 
 > blog to post this to, but that can be a bit annoying.
 > 
 > Not sure if this is making much sense, so feel free to ask for 
 > clarification.

Wouldn't it make sense to have the "blog this" menu have a submenu
containing all the known blogs (plus local, I guess)?  If I get a
chance, I suppose I could take a look and see if there's an easy way
to make that happen....

R