In the message dated: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:10:13 +0100, The pithy ruminations from Gunter Ohrner on <Syncing Maemo PIM apps with KDE PIM 4.3/4.4> were: => Hi! => => I just noticed the N900 smartphone and am pretty impressed. Especially I => like the fact to have a basically uncrippled and rather open environment => on my PDA, the fact it's running Linux just tops it off. => => However I was not able to find a definitive answer if it's easily => possible to sync the Maemo default PIM apps with the KDE PIM suite. I'm => happy about any pointers to docs, good howtos or older mailing list => threads discussing this topic, I'm willing to RTFM, but could not find => much concrete information so far. => => Note I do not want to run KDE PIM on this device, which would work => according to the information I googled. I'm using KDE PIM on my main => computer and would like to sync my mobile with these apps. I'm currently => using a Palm Centro which I explicitely bought - despide PalmOS 5 being => a dead platform and the device being technically outdated - because => syncing it using KDE kpilot works pretty reliably and simple. => => However, as kpilot won't be part of KDE SC 4.4 due to lack of a => Maintainer and PalmOS support is increasingly dropped everywhere else as => well, I'm starting to actively look for an alternative PDA platform. => => I'd prefer a simple and direct mobile <-> desktop sync solution, but I'm using KDEPIMPI (despite the name, this is NOT a KDE product). It runs under Linux (ARM and x86) and Windows....but it's doesn't natively sync to Google. My solution to this has been to use intermediate client software. Specifically, when I want to sync from kdepimpi to google: kdepimpi => desktop (as ical file) => gcaldaemon => google As long as the PIM can write an icalendar file (note, this is the icalendar standard, not a Apple product), then this method should work with almost any PIM. If the PIM supports custom "sync" hooks, then the process could be: [PIM] execute sync to google run sync2google script use icaldaemon to download latest google calendar as ical file sync current PIM state vrs ical file from google save synchronized version as a new ical file use icaldaemon to upload new ical file to google Between Perl & icaldaemon, I've got this process working as described on my Linux desktop & my N810 running Diablo. Mark => it'd also be possible to use some intermediate server software if that => would be neccessary. It's more important that the sync tools are => relatively mature and work without much hassle, without custom patching => and compiling against some very special versions of some obscure => libraries, and without eating my appointments for breakfast - to => summarise, I'm hoping for some sync solution which just works "out of => the box". => => Thanks for any tips, hints and pointers! => => Gunter => => _______________________________________________ => 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
