Re: [Evolution] Re: Syncing Evolution

[Martin Gill <martin martinsgill co uk>]

Paul M. Bucalo wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 11:26 +1100, Andrew Greig wrote: 
>  
>
> > Hi Paul,
> >
> > I have tried to sort out the gpilotd and also kpilot, as the korganizer 
> > has come a long way forward.  But neither Evo-pliot nor kpilot would 
> > sync.  I fired up jpilot and it worked beautifully.  I ran through my 
> > contacts on the desktop and deleted the duplicates, then I synched with 
> > the Pilot and all of the duplicates in the Palm were deleted as well.  I 
> > added some Calendar events and tasks and added an extra address, and 
> > synched again, fantastic -- perfect, I even caught the fact that it was 
> > updating AvantGo (something I do not use due to a lack of local 
> > channels).  So I guess the question needs to be asked " What can the 
> > Evo-pilot authors steal from jpilot?" cos it works and Evo does not.
> >    
>
> Better documentation would have probably reduced the number of
> complaints I have seen Web-wide...
>
>  
>
> > I have been a loyal and vigorous advocate of Evoution
> >    
>
> me too...
>
>  
>
> > since before it 
> > was 1.0, I think that 1.2 was excellent, 1.4.6 not too shabby, but I 
> > have had more difficulties with Evo 2 than just the pilot deal.
> >    
>
> same here...
>
>  
>
> >  Maybe 
> > by 2.5 it will all be OK again.  In the meantime, for my business sake I 
> > will have to use jpilot as my scheduling tool, and Evo or Mozilla as my 
> > mail client.
> >    
>
>
> This is what I came up with. It works for me:
>
> 1. Create a script that executes gpilotd and place it in
> ~/Desktop/Autostart. (This script tests if gpilotd is already running so
> as not to start it again.):
>
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> GPILOTD_RUNNING=3D`/bin/ps -A | grep gpilotd`
> #check to see if gpilotd is already running
>
> if [ ! -z "$GPILOTD_RUNNING" ]
> then
>        #start gpilotd -- where it's located in FC3
>        exec /usr/libexec/gpilotd >> ~/gpilotd.log 2>&1
> else
>        #don't bother, gpilotd is already running
>        echo "gpilotd already running" >> ~/gpilotd.log 2>&1
> fi
>
> #End of script
>
> Make it executable, restart X or drop back to your session manager and
> log back in. gpilotd will be running and ready to let your Palm device
> sync with Evo!
>
> Now I sync every time, with Evo open or not.
>
>  
For the most part I get Evo to sync fine, and I've actually got 
something like that already running for gpilot. There is a gnome desktop 
(panel) applet that will do it.

I can't get evo to sync my tasks, and I don't at the moment have the 
time to learn how to debug on linux to try and figure out what's wrong. 
Shame, because I tend to prefer Evo to the KDE equivalents.

> Hope this helps you reconsider Evo, Andrew.
>
> Paul
> (a happier Evo user, now) 
>
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