Grumblr (Tumblr companion)

Grumblr is a Tumblr micro-blogging platform client for a GTK-freindly desktop environment like GNOME, XFCE, LXDE, etc. With Grumblr 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
• RubyGems gem manager
• Ruby bindings to GTK+ as a gem
• libXml Ruby library
• REST Client gem

You can install required packages with the following command

On Debian/Ubuntu:

$ sudo apt-get install ruby rubygems ruby-dev libxml2-dev zlib1g-dev libgtk2.0-dev

Installation

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 Debian/Ubuntu:

$ sudo gem install grumblr $ cd /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/grumblr-2.4.2 $ sudo ruby ./setup.rb

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