Re: Desktop and Pilot

[Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <uraeus gnome org>]

I would think the REAL fix here is 'porting' the gnome-pilot stuff to
multisync and having GNOME switch to that as our handheld data exchange
library. I guess this is GNOME 2.8 material however.

Christian

On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 19:51, Andrew Sobala wrote:
> 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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