Re: Address Books

["Russell L. Harris" <rlharris hal-pc org>]

On 04/01/04 20:16:40, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> On 04.01 07:09, Steve Blackwell wrote:
>> 
>> The Balsa FAQ states that "You can specify a GnomeCard address book  
>> of your choice for Balsa to use.". I assume from this that GnomeCard  
>> is a standard format for data in an information Manager program.  
>> Most of the info I could find on it seems to be out of date; from  
>> around 2001 and the Gnome-pim project does not seem to be active  
>> anymore.
>> 
>> The only GnomeCard app that I can find is Rubica which does not seem  
>> to be widely used. Does people have any suggestions on a good  
>> GnomeCard App.
> 
> GnomeCard can be found in the gnome-pim package.  It's out of favor  
> with RedHat, but I was able to compile and install from source on RH  
> 9 with little difficultity.

GnomeCard (installed via the gnome-pin package) has been running here  
without problems (Debian "sarge", Gnome2 desktop, Balsa 2.0.15).   
Perhaps the reason that there is no activity is because perfection has  
been attained.
;-)

RLH