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[David Eriksson]

Hi everyone!

It sounds like this KDE user is in despair. What shall we tell him?

\David


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Is there a chance that Synce will ever be a useful program to exchange data
with Kontact?

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[Richard Alimi]

I had been successful in syncing both contacts and events with Kontact under
KDE before. The only issue I had was incorrect timezones for events, which
(IIRC) was due to a bug with Kontact. I haven't tried this in quite a few
months, though, so I cannot speak with certainty about Kontact
interoperability at the current moment. This is likely to be complicated by
the Opensync 2 -> 3 transition.

The current sync procedure may be complicated in terms of software
dependencies, but as far as I know, it works. The complexity is one thing
that is currently being addressed by many people.

Is there a particular step he is having issues with? Simply making a
high-level complaint doesn't help us.

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Post by David Eriksson
Hi everyone!
It sounds like this KDE user is in despair. What shall we tell him?
\David
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[Dr J A Gow]

Hi,


Basically, things _should_ improve as Opensync 0.3x matures. The problem
here is not SynCE so much as the kdepim plugin on the OpenSync side. Our
OpenSync plugin converts data from the Windows Mobile device effectively
into a neutral format. OpenSync then passes this data to a plugin on the
'other' side, for example evo2-sync for evolution, or kdepim for KDE. It
is this plugin that performs the conversion to the platform-specific
format. Opensync do not yet appear to have stabilized their intermediate
format or the plugins yet, even the 0.3x evolution plugin has errors.

So, I guess the best thing to tell him at the moment is to either
(assuming he uses WM5/6 - I am not that familiar with the legacy
environments):

- use SynCE from SVN with the last Opensync 0.2x and kdepim (I don't use
kdepim myself, but I believe it works reasonably well (Richard, is it
kdepim that you use? If so maybe you could pass comment here?).

- offer services to the Opensync folks as a kdepim plugin developer :-)

- If he has the time and doesn't mind setting up a test environment,
help me debug the Opensync 0.3x support in sync-engine using a kdepim
backend. The more testers, the quicker the fixes will come.

John.

Post by David Eriksson
Hi everyone!
It sounds like this KDE user is in despair. What shall we tell him?
\David
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[Richard Alimi]

Post by Dr J A Gow
- use SynCE from SVN with the last Opensync 0.2x and kdepim (I don't use
kdepim myself, but I believe it works reasonably well (Richard, is it
kdepim that you use? If so maybe you could pass comment here?).

Correct - I had used kdepim in the past and it worked fine (except for the
timzeone issue). I have not actually tried syncing in quite a while, so I
can't comment with complete accuracy on the current state since many things
have changed (new releases of Kontact, code changes in sync-engine and our
OpenSync plugin, code changes in OpenSync, transition process to OpenSync 3).
Theoretically it should work as well as before, but there are a lot of
variables there.

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Richard Alimi
Department of Computer Science
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