Re: Desktop and Pilot

[George Farris <george gmsys com>]

I want to put my vote in for this.  I know a number of people that world
love to see this fixed.

On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 12:02, Tom Lamm wrote:
> 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.
> > 
-- 
George Farris <george gmsys com>