Re: Desktop and Pilot



I wouldn't start from afresh unless what I found was really bad. This gizmo's been around to think that will happen.

Let me look into gnome-pilot, we'll see how noisy (or very very quiet) I become ;o)

On 11/13/03 12:51:10, 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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--
Andrew Sobala <as583 cam ac uk>

Given by our hand in the meadow that is called Runnymede, between
Windsor and Staines, on the fifteenth day of June in the seventeenth
year of our reign.

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