Re: DateBk5 Categories Support / Speed of Synch

["David A. Desrosiers" <hacker gnu-designs com>]

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> First, I noted that the current conduits (2.0.9) do not appear to support
> the synching of event, contact and task categories used in DateBk5,

> which is one of the more popular Palm OS Calendar/Contact apps.

	"one of the more popular" (closed-source) "Palm OS Calender..."

> This perhaps raises the question as to whether or not this is a conduit
> issue, an Evolution issue or both?

	Likely an issue of time, resources, and availability. I'm sure if
someone wanted to whip up a conduit for it, it would be fairly
straightforward, since the code already exists in J-Pilot, though it doesn't
quite do anything with the tags yet. The author(s) of DateBk5 just gave Judd
a free reg, so I'm sure he'll spend some time working on new support for
those tags.

> Second, the speed of synching, even when no changes have been made in
> Evolution seems to be rather slow relative to what I am used to seeing
> under WinXP.  I have the speed set to 115,200 in both the Clie and the
> conduits.

	Setting the speed to 115200 under USB has no effect, unless you're
using a "real" RS-232 serial port. If you want to try some additional
speedups, try using a port designation of 'usb:/dev/ttyUSB1' (no
double-slash, just one), and see if that helps. You have to be running a
recent pilot-link to enable it, and of course, a recent gnome-pilot as well.

	On the right hardware, it will give you a 50% speedup in sync time.
Basically that switch will remove the unnecesary layer of the DLP protocol
stack, resulting in faster transfers. Some people report success, some
people report failures with it, YMMV.

> Is the synch time a reflection of slower net USB speeds under RH 9 or is
> there some feature in Outlook (ie. a changed record flag) that enables the
> synching to be faster than with Evolution? If so, then again, this may
> raise the question of this being a conduit and/or Evolution issue.

	If you are _only_ sync'ing to gnome-pilot, multiple times in a row,
it should be fast. If you sync to Windows, then gnome-pilot, it will almost
always be slow, as it should be, because the record pointers and LastSyncPC
and SyncDate have all changed.



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