I happen to have over 800 contacts and have been working with Graham on GPE-Contact and GPE_Calendar. He's very open to suggestions and help, I'm sure that if you gave him a clear explanation of which fields are imported wrong, he'll look into it and get it fixed. I just finally got the import to digest my contact file, and havent had a chance to get it cleaned up. I purchased the N800 as a mini laptop/PIM/MP3 player/and IP Phone. I've had it about a year or so and finally have a working PIM, even though like you I think the GPE-Contact part needs more work, but the whole GPE group are quite functional. Gary BaribaultCourriel: gary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Key: 0x4346F013GPG Fingerprint: BCE8 2E6B EB39 9B23 6904 1DF4 C4E6 2CF7 4346 F013 Mark wrote:> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Uwe Kaminski <jukey@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:> >> Am Donnerstag, den 19.06.2008, 09:04 -0600 schrieb Mark:>> >>> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 2:10 AM, Uwe Kaminski <jukey@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:>>> >>>> So I don't would agree if somebody says the contacts application is very>>>> poor. It's like a small flower which has to grow. And yes, it would grow>>>> faster if the contacts application would be open source.>>>>>>>> Ciao Uwe>>>> >>> You're contradicting yourself and missing the point. If the>>> application weren't so poor, it wouldn't *need* to grow. And if>>> Pimlico does indeed use the exact same database, then clearly there is>>> something going on here that is not aboveboard, and Contacts is>>> deliberately crippled rather than simply a first effort.>>> >> >> Where is the problem? There is an back-end (the db) wich supports more>> than the standard front-end application could display. So choose an>> other flower from the bouquet of available applications.>>>> The other way round (less db fields; more fields like postal adress in>> the apps) would be much more worse.>>>> Ciao Uwe>>>> >> There are two problems:> 1) Whether Nokia wants to admit it or not, the tablets need a *good*> PIM out of the box. Developers apparently don't need real PIMs, but> consumers do. It doesn't qualify as a consumer device without it.> 2) If you're willing to enter all your data by hand, or edit each and> every imported field in order clean up the records, then gpe-contacts> and Pimlico are great. However, if you need good import/export> functionality, you're screwed regardless of which app you use, and> that includes the built-in Contacts app.>> I have over 400 records (with many fields) that I need to transfer to> & from my N800, so I definitely fall under the category of "you're> screwed".>> Mark> _______________________________________________> maemo-users mailing list> maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx> https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users> _______________________________________________maemo-users mailing listmaemo-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
