On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 04:39:31PM +0100, Graham Cobb wrote: > On Tuesday 29 April 2008 15:18:01 hendrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 08:40:30PM -0400, Gary Baribault wrote: > > > I kind of wish that someone would start up an oposing PIM .. Any takers? > > > 450$ to play Mahjong or Blocks seems a little steep! > > I didn't start working on GPE because I thought it was a great project: I > started working on GPE because I had a need for a PIM on the Internet Tablet > and it seemed more sensible to start with an existing piece of software and > make improvements rather than create something from scratch. > > It doesn't seem likely to me that starting an opposing PIM would help. There > are few enough people to work on one -- what would be achieved by trying to > work on two? All of people's pet peeves with GPE (bugs, UI, features) could > be fixed if there were one or two more developers with time to make a > contribution. I'm happy with the calendar, now that I've discovered the trick to using it -- make sure that "My calendar" is selected in the upper right corner. It's the to-do list that gets me. I come from a Palm environment. No, the to-do list there was also useless. What I found to work was the memo system. Each memo was a to-do list item, and it would neatly display the first lines of all the to-do items. What I could do there that I can't do with GPE or Palm's own to-do list was rearrange the order of items on the screen, just by dragging them around. Once a week I'd look at the entire set and rearrange them, so that the ones I wanted to be particularly concerned with that week would be near the top of the list. Setting numerical priorities just doesn't work as conveniently. What I do like about GPE is that it doesn't have a limit on the number of categories available (at least, not one I've encountered; I was always bumping against the 16-category limit on Palm). As far as I know, GPE stores its to-do list in a data base, which is (at least conceptually) an unordered set of records. The kind of hand-rearranging I do is not really conceptually compatible with this. > > > I've certainly considered it -- but first I want to put together a sync > > mechanism that > > * doesn't care how many places you sync with, > > * doesn't care whether the places sync amongst each other. > > * provides syntactic guarantees about merged updates. > > Such a sync mechanism I need for more things than an improved PIM. > > Sync mechanisms are also something that seems to become much more complex than > one expects when one starts. I would encourage you to contribute to > improving OpenSync if possible, rather than start yet another project. If > nothing else, there are people on the OpenSync list who have tackled many of > these problems and who may have useful advice. It is another project where a > usable product is in sight but there are not enough developer-hours to get > there at the speed we would wish. For just the todo-list and sync, I could probably improvise with a (possibly modified) text editor and a distrubited revision-control system like monotone. But none of these systems, as far as I know, merge changes very well when they involve reordering things. Moving blocks of data tend to be treated as deletion and insertion. But I agree. Devising a complete sync mechanism just for a to-do list is overkill. -- hendrik > > Graham > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
