Hi, I've been looking for an easy way to support birthday sync with evolution, but it seems somewhat tricky. You have to use the contactDb instead of the addressDb, and so it requires a lot of changes to the addressconduit, as the structure of both databases in pilot-link isn't the same. For now I just made a testing conduit more as a proof-of-concept and a way for me to see what's possible and what needs to be done. I have this modification of the addressconduit attached. It's a rather heavy modification, and it's actually not usable at all for the moment. It only syncs the name, title, company and all the addresses (which is not possible in the old addressDb) as an experiment. I actually don't know how it's the best way to implement this further, and that's why I'm asking for your help :-) My current vision is to implement it like this (and that's how I've started, but it can easily be changed): Implement it as a separate conduit and name it contact-conduits that lives next to address-conduit. This for the following reasons: - It requires a massive amount of changes, and this way the addressconduit is guaranteed to stay working. - As palm os 3 and 4 do not have the condactDb, we still have to support the addressDb, and implementing both in 1 conduit will make it rather tricky to implement it clean and to maintain. - The implementation of gnome-pilot requires the conduit to give the database id upon initialization. This id is different for the contact and address Db, so I *think* (I might be wrong) it is not possible to make it in 1 conduit and let the user in the preferences select if he wants to use contactDb or AddressDb Disadvantage: It's rather confusing for the user having 2 conduits which appear to do the same thing. Let me know you opinions, and hopefully I can find enough time to complete this project. I've my current work attached. please note this is for testing/demonstration only, it's not usable as most of the fields are still ignored. Tom
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