On Thu, 2007-04-01 at 09:52 +0000, Matt Davey wrote: > On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 14:47 -0500, Matt Price wrote: > > Hi gnome-piloteers, > > > > I've recently realized I'd better implement a birthday-memory-supplement > > in my personal life. So I would like to sync birthdays between my palm > > (T|X) and evolution (2.8.1) using gnome-pilot 2.0.14 and pilot=link > > 0.12.1. This is all on ubuntu edgy, using the official edgy packages, > > though the system has a couple of other feisty packages; syncing is over > > wireless or bluetooth (usb sync didn't work, as discussed some months > > ago on this list). > > I've made available some unofficial edgy packages that fix at least some > of the timing problems with USB syncing: > http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mcdavey/downloads/ > > > As far as I can tell the birthday information > > doesn't get synced along with the rest of the contact info. Am I right > > about this? Is there an upgrade to pilot-link, gnome-pilot, and/or > > evolution that can fix the issue? > > As you probably know, the birthday field and a few others were > introduced in the OS5 release. The recently released pilot-link 0.12 > provides some library-level support for parsing the new fields but this > support is, I believe, somewhat beta. David, do you want to comment? > > The Evolution conduit needs to be updated to support the new fields, > however. The evo-conduits could do with some love, really. I find the > addresses sync gets very confused with first/last name mapping ever > since Evo decided to attempt to map "full names" to first/last names > automagically. Disaster. I haven't looked at the evo data structures, > but I presume sanity can be restored.... Volunteers are welcome. gaah. I doubt I can contribute right now, chasing various deadlines. and not a coder! but thanks for the info. matt > > Matt > > Matt Davey I went to a Grateful Dead Concert and they played > mcdavey mrao cam ac uk for SEVEN hours. Great song. > _______________________________________________ > gnome-pilot-list mailing list > gnome-pilot-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-pilot-list -- Matt Price History Dept University of Toronto matt price utoronto ca
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