On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 06:15:19AM -0400, Adam Tauno Williams 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". > > I'd suspect the issue is more with the Palm OS version. pilot-link (the > utilities and libraries used by LINUX applications to exchange data with > the Palm) had issues for a long time with OS version 5 and later > devices. pilot-link development [around 2005] appeared essentially > moribund, I don't know if it picked up since; our response > [OpenGroupware] was just to drop Palm support from our project when > PalmOS 5 shipped. > > I'm not aware of a good local syncing solution. I'd recommend taking a > look at Funambol myPORTAL <http://funambol.com/solutions/portal.php> for > an excellent and *real* Open Source [unlike g...] cloud solution if you > are open to that. Funambol can sync just about anything that has IP > connectivity. > Yes and no. Funambol (in my experience) isn't an "out of the box" solution, it needs a fair amount of fairly knowledgeable configuration to get it working really well. It's also *huge*, several hundred megabytes.
In addition Funambol is *only* a synchronisation server, it doesn't have any proper desktop client (just a simple test client) so you need your [Palm] PDA, and funambol *and* a desktop client that will talk to Funambol. There's still no really neat Linux desktop <--> PDA synchronisation available to replace j-pilot. I used to use Palms and never found anything usable other than J-Pilot. I now have a Nokia E71 and the situation is exactly the same. I have ended up using Nokia's PC-Suite and Outlook running in a VirtualBox XP guest on my xubuntu system. FWIW my wife still uses a Palm Treo and that works pretty well with Evolution, it's not *perfect* but it's quite usable. -- Chris Green _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
