Re: [Evolution] pilot-related questions

[JP Rosevear <jpr ximian com>]

On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 12:46, Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper wrote:
> A few pilot-related questions have I....  
>
> The "Custom" fields on the Palm....  These don't get mapped to anything
> in evolution, I understand.  However, I had much data in these fields
> and after syncing with evolution (copy from first, then synchronize),
> all the data in my custom pilot fields were gone.  Slightly
> annoying/borderline-"superbly irritating if I hadn't just backed up my
> Palm Pilot first".  Is this a known annoyance, praytell?  =:)

You are correct.  This wasn't a problem but became broken during the fix
for something else.  Bug 17230.  I have a patch for this ready.

> Second, the alarm/reminder that is used on the palm is not the same as
> is used in evolution.  I mean, if I set an alarm on a calendar item on
> my palm and then sync, the calendar item makes it over just fine,
> although it's without the alarm.  Similarly, if I add an appointment in
> evolution with a reminder set, and then sync up with my palm, the alarm
> field is not set on my pilot. Does anyone know--is this a known feature
> or is this planned for a soon-to-be-released release?  =:)

This was a known missing feature.  It has already been added for the
1.0.1 release.
 
> Third and having to do with contacts...  If I mark a record "private" in
> my Palm Pilot and sync up with evolution, then later change anything in
> the record from evolution and sync with my Pilot again, the record now
> has had the "private" indicator taken off from it.  This is a smidge
> annoying, as it sort of defeats the purpose of having "private" records
> in one's Pilot.  

Correct, the privates flags don't seem to be getting to the conduits,
bug 17231.  Investigating.

-JP
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