Hal Vaughan wrote: > I'm moving to my Nokia 770 from a Palm Tungsten C. There's only one > issue I've found that is keeping me from dropping use of the Palm > completely: I need to sync some apps with the apps I use in KDE on > Linux. > > I've found info on GPE, but have not found enough to actually be able to > sync the data with any KDE PIM programs. As best I can tell, it seems > GPE uses OpenSYNC, but I'm not sure. > > Does anyone sync their apps on their Nokia with any Linux (and > preferably KDE) apps? Are you using GPE? If not, what is recommended? > > I don't use a calendar or to-do list, but I would like to sync my > contacts and notes back and forth. I'm looking into just using a Perl > program and scp to sync data. I figure in some cases it'll be easy to > copy a file back and forth and change the format, but often full sync > features in programs take care of other issues, such as comparing what > has been added on both ends and making it easy to decide which one to > accept and, to be honest, that's just a pain to program. If someone > else has done the work, I'd rather use that. > > Are three any guides to apps I can use that sync with KDE PIM apps? > (I've Googled and come up short.) Are there recommendations for any > apps to use that have the sync tools built in? > > Thanks! > > Hal > > I've used GPE, OpenSync, and Evolution, but I know there are K-app sync plugins for OpenSync and so I'd imagine with just a little experimentation my instructions would apply. http://cleardefinition.com/page/Sync_Evolution_and_GPE_on_N800/ is the link (don't be fooled by the name - It should work on a 770 just as well). The step you'd need to change is in "*Set up MultiSync-Gui/OpenSync on Desktop"*, 4. "Add Member", "Evolution 2.x". From what I see on the OpenSync web page, you'd select "kdepim" there. (This would sync calendar, todo, and contacts, I believe - make sure that you choose to compile the kdepim plugin if you build OpenSync yourself.) For synchronizing notes, since those are just simple files (actually HTML files that import great into AbiWord on the desktop for converting to any format you like), you might try Unison - it's kind of a like a two-directional "rsync", if you've heard of that. I've never gotten Unison to work for me, but I've only put about 3-5 minutes into trying :) If you only want to transfer notes from 770 to desktop, following the steps to set up the SSH needed in my guide will get the tough stuff for rsync set up easily. Then, just install rsync on both 770 and desktop, and install Grsync (or a comparable KDE app) and sync to your heart's content! (I've done this - works well. Your documents are in /home/user/MyDocs/.documents/ I believe.) Good luck! If you get these syncs to work out, let me know and I'll update my guide so that I don't leave out the KDE folks. Ryan -- Ryan Pavlik AbiWord Win32 Platform Maintainer, Art Lead: www.abisource.com AbiWord Community Outreach Project: www.cleardefinition.com/oss/abi/blog/ "Optimism is the father that leads to achievement." -- Helen Keller "The folder structure in a modern Linux distribution such as Ubuntu was largely inspired by the original UNIX foundations that were created by men with large beards and sensible jumpers." -- Jono Bacon, The Ubuntu Guide
