QTM 0.5: first beta released

From KDE Apps:

A first beta of version 0.5.0 of QTM, a desktop blogging client for Movable Type and similar blogging systems written by the author of this blog, has been released. Changes:

• New feature: Quickpost templates, enabling the blogger to set up custom blog entry templates into which the URL and title of the article being blogged can be automatically pasted when blogging. This helps when posting formulaic blog entries such as most of those on this blog. Only available through the system-tray icon in this version, which means it requires Qt 4.2.
• New feature: ability to specify trackback pings to be sent at the time of publishing on blogging engines which support it (like Movable Type).
• Bug fix: the app used to crash when closing the preferences window when the system tray icon was in use, due to a dangling pointer.
• Bug fix: the app would not close when Quit was selected from the STI on the Mac.

Screenshots here, downloads (source, binaries to follow) here. Requires Qt 4.1 (4.2 to use the system tray icon, including Quickpost and templates).