/* logjam, a GTK LiveJournal client.

Introduction

"LiveJournal.com... because you like to think other people care." LogJam is a client for LiveJournal. It lets you post, edit old entries, manage your friends, and whatever other useful LiveJournal-related features we can think of.

Visit http://logjam.danga.com for the latest version and up-to-date information about LogJam development.

Requirements

LogJam requires GTK+ 2.0 or greater.
Get GTK+ at http://www.gtk.org.

LogJam also requires libcurl, an HTTP library.

Debian users need libgtk2.0-dev, libxml2-dev, libcurl-dev, and their dependencies.

RPMs of libcurl are linked from the LogJam page.

Enhancements

None of these enhancements are required to build LogJam. LogJam should detect whether you have them at configure-time and conditionally enable them.

Spell checking support requires GtkSpell 2.0.2 or later. For more information about GtkSpell, visit http://gtkspell.sf.net.
Current music autodetection requires XMMS 1.2 or later. Visit http://www.xmms.org.
HTML preview requires libGtkHTML 3. This is the HTML widget used by Ximian's evolution, so it shouldn't be hard to find.

Debian users can apt-get libgtkspell-dev, xmms-dev, libgtkhtml3-dev, and their dependencies.

Getting Started

You need a LiveJournal account to use LogJam. LogJam cannot create this. Visit http://www.livejournal.com to get an account.

(LogJam can also be used with alternative LiveJournal sites, though you'll have to find them yourself.)

LogJam has a pretty standard setup.
Running:

        $ ./configure 
        $ make
        $ su
        # make install

should be all you need to install it.

The installed executable is called "logjam".

Using LogJam

Most of LogJam should be self-explanatory. That's why you're using a GUI, right?

GTK Accelerators:
You can remap the accelerators for any menu item. To do it, first enable the accelerator-changing functionality in GTK by appending this line to ~/.gtkrc-2.0:
gtk-can-change-accels = 1
or, on a GNOME system, with this command: gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/interface/can_change_accels -t bool true Then open up a menu in LogJam, move the mouse over a menu item, and type a keystroke to bind that menu item to that keystroke. (To clear an accelerator, hit backspace.)

Unicode characters:
LiveJournal, LogJam, and GTK2 all support unicode, so LogJam is capable of posting in almost any language you can find. Additionally, many characters that are not part of the ASCII standard (such as an em-dash) are available. Please visit my page on X input: http://neugierig.org/content/input/
for details on configuring this.

Also: If there is anything you don't like about LogJam, don't just complain about it in your LiveJournal, tell me! I can't fix it if I don't know about it.

Authors

Evan Martin (LiveJournal user "evan") -- http://neugierig.org wrote most of this.

Gaal Yahas (LiveJournal user "gaal") -- http://www.forum2.org/gaal/ has made some significant contributions.

Thanks

In more or less unsorted order, but the more recent contributions are at the top:

Aleksander Adamowski <aleksander.adamowski@gmail.com> - patches Satoru SATOH <ss@gnome.gr.jp> - Japanese translation Grigory Bakunov <black@asplinux.ru> - Russian translation The GEdit Authors - Undo code
Frank Hofmann <frankhofmann@gmx.ch> - German translation George Mason <georgemason@mindspring.com> - accelerator saving Dave Spadea <dave@spadea.net> - lj-cut patch Dmitry "old_one" Dyomin <old@old.com.ua> - Ukrainian translation Ricardo "mones" Mones Lastra <ricardo.mones@hispalinux.es> - Spanish translation Jon Nall <nall@gentoo.org> - Gentoo packaging Mikhail Chekanov <mihun@bitex.com> - Russian translation Asaf "ijon" Bartov <ijon@forum2.org> - win32 multithread support Gaal "gaal" Yahas <gaal@forum2.org> - checkfriends, poll creator, i18n Sergei "sgt" Barbarash <sgt@fep.ru> - support for cyrillic translation Michael Bravo <mbravo@tag-ltd.spb.ru> - locale fixes Ari Pollak <ari@debian.org> - Debian package, undo Steve Bernacki, Jr. <steve@copacetic.net> - typo in configure.in Artem Baguinski <artm@v2.nl> - locale setting nulld <nulld@encryptedemail.net> - OpenBSD box to test on Decklin "decklin" Foster <decklin@red-bean.com> - window geometry save/restore Matthew Vernon <matthew@pick.ucam.org> - simple login proxy patch Bill Crawford <bill@eb0ne.net> - variety of patches Gabriel "diamondc" Martinez <gabrielfm@yahoo.com> - Solaris box to test on Tom "spot" Callaway <spot@redhat.com> - Advanced RPM packaging Alexander GrÃ¤fe <nachtfalke@retrogra.de> - Initial RPM packaging Christian "christian" Surchi <csurchi@debian.org> - Debian maintainer Joe "piman" Wreschnig <piman@sacredchao.net> - Debian package help Ryan Younce <ryan@manunkind.org> - FreeBSD packaging Raja Mukerji <mukerji@pobox.com> - a multitude of patches Adam Bidema <hijinx@klone.nwraves.net> - initial file save patch Matt Roper <mdroper@ucdavis.edu> - parallel make tips Brad Fitzpatrick <brad@danga.com> - much of the original client

And these people helped so long ago, I can't remember why they're even listed here:
Simon Huet <detourds@bellsouth.net>
Scott Hammack <shammack@goldinc.com>
Damian Bickhoff <q9405096@brampton.cqu.edu.au>

License

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA

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