On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 06:37:37AM -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 11:33 +0100, Chris G wrote: > > 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. > > myPortal is a *hosted* version of Funambol. > Yes, but that rather spoils the idea of keeping everything on your own machine. There's another Funambol based 'out there' server which is somewhat better than myPortal, I found it worked pretty well with my E71 without nay mucking around, more than can be said for Funambol 'as installed'. (Ah, after a bit of searching, I mean scheduleWorld)
> > 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 are clients for both Evolution and Outlook. > ... but neither is an 'out of the box' installation by any means. I spent ages with the Evolution one and never really got it working properly. > > There's still no really neat Linux desktop <--> PDA synchronisation > > Agree. > -- Chris Green _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
