Some gnome-blog suggestions:

I recently sent some small suggestions for gnome-blog:

Improve the applet's general look:

-Adopt the Tango icon (http://tango.freedesktop.org/index.php?title=Tango_Fridays&redirect=no) and use it in the applet, to make it stand out.
-Center the text, since it is now placed too low and part of it appears hidden.
-Maybe remove the arrow? It does not seem to serve any purpose.
-Don't show the button frame until the cursor is hovered over the applet, just like the clock applet or the time-tracking applet do.
-Also, use the fade animation in Compiz as they do. Not the current one.

Support for more than one blog:

-Move the "blog name" field to the main interface. That way, publishing to a different blog would be just a click away.

Replicate pidgin's tipography and insert buttons:

-Replicating Pidgin's buttons would allow gnome-blog to add more functions while keeping its interface simpler than it is now.

The following mockup shows the proposed changes.