On Sun, 2009-10-18 at 21:53 -0700, Simon Roberts wrote: > > ----- Original Message ---- > > From: Ng Oon-Ee <ngoo...@gmail.com> > > To: Christopher M Bailey <ch...@chrisbailey.au.com> > > Cc: Simon Roberts <thorpfl...@yahoo.com>; Evolution e-list > > <evolution-list@gnome.org> > > Sent: Sun, October 18, 2009 3:57:11 AM > > Subject: Re: [Evolution] Reliable Palm device? > > > > On Sun, 2009-10-18 at 18:54 +1100, Christopher M Bailey wrote: > > > On Sat, 2009-10-17 at 22:50 -0700, Simon Roberts wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > I've never had great luck with palm devices and Evolution. Partly, > > > > perhaps, > > because I'm using versions that come with distros (usually either SuSE or > > Ubuntu) and they're never "the latest". > > > > > > > > Anyway, my girlfriend has been clinging to windows because of my > > > > inability > > to make Linux behave properly with her palm, but now her palm has died. So, > > I > > figure maybe now is the time to influence her purchase and try to get her > > to buy > > one that is known to be rock solid with Evolution (including "not the > > latest" > > versions). > > > > > > > > What should she get? She doesn't need a fancy one, and doesn't want to > > > > spend > > a bunch on it. But it must be reliable, and must work 100% with Linux. > > > > > > > > Indeed, is this the right list, or should I direct this question > > > > elsewhere? > > > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > Simon > > > > > > > > "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell > > > > whether > > a man is wise by his questions." — Naguib Mahfouz > > > If you want something solid with Linux, would a net book do the job? Or > > > are you looking more at a smart phone? > > > > Considering this is the evo-list... The only 100% reliable palm > > synchronization app I've found on Linux is J-Pilot (honest response, > > don't flame please). Evo syncs well enough, but data goes missing > > (birthdays and addresses mainly). > > > > The type of Palm shouldn't really matter, you're going to be getting an > > OS5 anyway (unless you're looking at the Palm Pre and up, with WebOS, > > then its a totally different ballgame, no Linux sync yet I believe). > > > > What I do is use JPilot to sync, and I have my own script which I run > > from time to time to export an address book to Evo. Not the best of > > solutions, but it works for me. Also I don't sync calendars... > > Ah, yeah, I use JPilot myself, but she needs calendars as well as address > book,, and is accustomed to running those in the same app as mail. Might be > able to work on the accustomed style thing, but we'll see. > > Thanks, > Simon > I'm not sure what the export options are for j-pilot, but I believe it shouldn't be hard to dump the j-pilot calendar in the same way as the contact database.
If you're using the newer Contacts type database, jpilot 1.6.2 doesn't support dumping it to a script, I submitted a patch for that but there's no new version yet. Ask on the jpilot list if you're interested in that. _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
