Re: Desktop and Pilot



It would be nice to have improved pilot support. My personal advice
would be to improve the current gnome-pilot rather than starting afresh.

I've been intending to look at improving a couple of the conduits, but
haven't got round to it.

On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 21:42, Tom Lamm wrote:
> Not really complaining, just curious.
> 
> I upgraded to 2.4 and noticed the lack of Pilot. Like I said, Evo seems  
> to replace it, but is an "all in one" approach that I personally don't  
> love.
> 
> I'm also looking for a way to get my toes wet in the world of Gnome  
> desktop. Building an app to replace the Pilot organizer may be big, may  
> be too big, or may be simply updating the old one. So, I'm trying to  
> get a feel for the project and the need for it.
> 
> I, of course, don't care to make something work that only a few people  
> want to use.
> 
> Tom L
> 
> On 11/11/03 15:09:19, Callum McKenzie wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 08:43, Rob Adams wrote:
> > > Evolution pilot support was horribly broken last time I looked at  
> > it
> > (it
> > > would duplicate every record every time you sync, so that you end  
> > up
> > > with three copies of each record in both the pilot and evo), and
> > > gnome-pilot is still really hard to get going for USB devices  
> > (which
> > is
> > > all of them, these days).  I had just assumed that gnome-pilot was
> > dead.
> > 
> > It all works happily under Fedora (evolution 1.4.5 and gnome-pilot
> > 2.0.10) with the exception of USB device discovery being a bastard
> > (i.e.
> > non-existent). According to the ChangeLog gnome-pilot is still  
> > getting
> > some love, so it's not completely dead.
> > 
> > I don't think the original poster was complaining about this bit
> > though,
> > just that the rest of GNOME didn't seem to take any advantage of
> > Pilots.
> > 
> >  - Callum
> > 
> > 
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