Re: [Evolution] Shared contact info between Android/Google contacts and Evolution

[Oon-Ee Ng <ngoonee talk gmail com>]

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 18:53 +1000, Nick Jenkins wrote:
> > * Some contact properties are not editable in Evo, but they seem to be
> > available/supported in Google contacts.
> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=625330 mentions notes and
> > birthdays. There's a few more though, namely: Nickname field, the
> > "other phone" phone number type, web address: home page; web address:
> > web log; spouse's name; job: title; job: company; and the person's
> > picture/image.
>
>        Hi,
> you didn't indicate what version of evolution (-data-server) you are
> using, but the upcoming 3.0.0 depends on latest libgdata and supports
> most (if not all) of the fields you named above. The Google addressbook
> backend was also massively rewritten by the libgdata developer for
> 3.0.0, thus expect some improvements too.
>        Bye,
>        Milan
Also, take a look at syncevolution + mobical. A bit circuitous, but it
supports all the relevant fields (including birthdays) right now
without needing to wait for 3.0.0.

P.S. - thanks Milan for notifying me that I sent the mail wrongly =)