Grumblr (Tumblr companion for GNOME)

Grumblr is a Tumblr micro-blogging platform client for GNOME. You can post text messages, links, quotes, chat logs, upload photos, audio and video files right away from your desktop.

Requirements

In order to install and run grumblr you should have the following packages installed on your system:

Ruby interpreter
GTK+ library
Ruby bindings to GTK+
RubyGems gem manager
libXml Ruby library
REST Client gem
PPDS libraries gem

You can install required packages with the following command

On Gentoo Linux


$ sudo emerge -uva dev-lang/ruby dev-ruby/rubygems dev-ruby/libxml \
                   dev-ruby/ruby-gtk2 dev-ruby/ruby-gconf2

On Ubuntu:


$ sudo apt-get install ruby ruby-dev rubygems ruby-gnome2 libxml-ruby \
                       libxml2 libxml2-dev libopenssl-ruby

Installation


$ sudo gem install ppds-libs rest-client grumblr

Grumblr comes with both desktop entry file and icon, though they are not installed automatically during gem installation process. To make Grumblr acessible via GNOME menu move data/grumblr.application file into /usr/share/application/ directory, copy data/pixmaps/fliewr.svg icon to /usr/share/pixmaps/ directory accordingly, and create a symlink of grumbr script to an accessible directory like /usr/bin/ or /usr/local/bin/.

On Ubuntu:


$ sudo cp /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/grumblr-2.2.0/data/pixmaps/grumblr.svg \
          /usr/share/pixmaps/

$ sudo cp /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/grumblr-2.2.0/data/grumblr.desktop \
          /usr/share/applications/

$ sudo ln -s /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/grumblr /usr/bin/grumblr

On Gentoo:

Gentoo GNU/Linux users can get the latest Grumblr ebuild from my overlay.

Screenshots

Usage

At the first start you will need to enter your Tumblr login and password. Select a message type, add contents and probably a file. Submit to Tumblr blog.

Source files

GitHub repository