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I have released version 1.3.6 of QTM. The main features this time round are user interface adjustments relating to releasing it for the Mac, which has become possible for me again but was a bit more difficult than I had expected due to some bugs in Qt (which also affect Nokia's own development tools). Older versions had the new-style unified title and toolbar; that had to go so as to stop each new window being smaller than the last. I've also moved the upload progress bar, and a hidden button in the bottom status bar, into the side panel.Read more »

Well, by today I had hoped to be able to release a Mac OS X release of QTM. It's been a few years and several releases, but sadly I had to retire my old Mac and Nokia decided to migrate Qt to Cocoa (the Objective-C interface to Mac OS X, as opposed to the C-based Carbon that had been used before), sacrificing compatibility with PowerPC and older versions of Mac OS X in the process. I now have a new Mac mini, and have compiled a copy of QTM using a newer version of Qt.Read more »

I have just released version 1.3.5 of QTM. Several of the changes were based on correspondence with Chema Cortes on BitBucket, who reported problems affecting international users and a problem with empty account entries persisting after opening a file. There is also a proper quit entry in Unity's icon menu (because Unity's own Quit action just closes all the open windows rather than closing the app itself). Changelog is here.

Packages for Ubuntu have already been built and if you are subscribed to my PPA, you should already have been upgraded. A Windows binary can be found here. Source bundles are available in the downloads links on the right, and SUSE/Fedora binaries are available through the OpenSUSE build service repositories.

I have just released version 1.3.4 of QTM; the main feature this time round only affects Ubuntu users who use the Unity environment. It adds new menu entries to the icon which appears in the "launcher" (dock) on the left hand side, which you can keep there by right-clicking on it and selecting "Keep in launcher". You can open new or saved entries, and run quickpost (no template support at present) from the menu. I intend to add more functionality to that in due course. Sadly, GNOME 3's own shell does not support this at present, but the system tray menu functionality has not changed.

There is also one bug fix for everyone, namely that when you close an untouched new entry, it no longer thinks it's unsaved and therefore doesn't ask you to save it anymore.Read more »

A new version has been released: version 1.3.3 contains some improvements and bug fixes to Preview mode, and an important bug fix to editing: that when you add an image or link with quote marks in the title (double quotes), it encodes the quotes, rather than copying them as they are (which would make the link invalid). Full changelog here.

Packages have been publishes for Ubuntu via Launchpad and for OpenSUSE and Fedora via the OpenSUSE Build Service. A Windows binary should be available later today. Source code available at Sourceforge, or using one of the two "Source" links in the Downloads box on the right-hand side of this page.

It's been a long time coming, but I've finally got version 1.3.2 ready for release -- the new features don't really justify the long wait (11 months); what has happened is a mixture of more work and features that didn't work out. The most important new feature is the suppression of those irritating "read more" tags some newspaper websites insert when you copy and paste.

Packages for OpenSUSE and Fedora are building right now; packages for Ubuntu and Windows will follow later.

Having recently installed the beta of Ubuntu's "natty" release on one of my computers, it has come to my attention that QTM is incompatible with the system tray in the Unity environment. Unity includes the system tray only for a few specific applications via a "white list", but adding QTM to the white list or changing the list to "all" does not make QTM work - the system tray does not appear.

This is, unfortunately, Canonical's way of trying to dictate how everyone else uses their system: they have decided that the system tray is incompatible with their user interface philosophy, and they want everyone to re-write their apps to use their notification system. The problem is that the system tray works as a means of running an app in the background with a menu available to open a window as and when needed. Mac OS X lets you run the system tray menu off the dock; Unity doesn't.Read more »

I have just released packages for Fedora 14, OpenSUSE 11.4 and SUSE EL 11, service pack 1, through the OpenSUSE Build Service. Instructions for SUSE distributions are here and for Fedora 14 are here.

Version 1.3 has just been released. There is one new feature this time round, and an under-the-hood change.

The new feature is HTML syntax highlighting, which was adapted from an example in the Qt Quarterly. This highlights HTML tags, character codes and comments, which helps you avoid forgetting to close links and that sort of thing. It's pretty basic and I intend to extend it in the future.

The under-the-hood change is the use of Qt's network access manager system, rather than the QHttp class which has been marked obsolete. This means QTM now requires Qt 4.4 to compile or run, although that is available in all of the modern Linux distributions except Ubuntu Hardy (for which it's available in backports).

Packages have already built at my Launchpad PPA, so you either use APT to download it afresh or, if you've already got an older version, the update manager will soon fetch the new one for you.Read more »

I've got round to releasing version 1.2 of QTM. This comes after a year in which I tried to implement hierarchical categories on Wordpress blogs, but got stuck doing that, so I implemented HTTPS posting (thanks Ben Kibbey) and the ability to download tags from a Wordpress blog, and also fixed a few bugs. You can find the changelog here.

If you're using the latest version of Ubuntu (Lucid) and noticed QTM in the Universe archive, you might have noticed that it didn't work, and folded as soon as you opened a window. Well, that wasn't a bug in QTM but in their package, and might be fixed in a forthcoming update, but it's not an update to v1.2. Please see here for how to do that.

SUSE and other Linux packages to follow; Windows users may take this installer.