Re: [Evolution] Reliable Palm device?

[Chris G <cl isbd net>]

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