On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 15:49, Florin Andrei wrote: > Anyone with a comparison between gnome-pilot and JPilot, please? I cannot provide a comparison, but I am (at this very moment, in fact :-) ) using Evolution and gnome-pilot. I will take a stab at answering your Q's... > 1. What are the major PDA apps that get sync'ed with Evo? > I suppose it's: Date Book (becomes Calendar in Evo), Address Book > (becomes Contacts) and ToDo List (becomes Tasks). Then how about Memo > Pad? I only seem to see conduits for: -Address, Calendar, ToDo. Yet, when I check under ~/MyPilot/ I see my YAPS database (secure password app on my PalmV), MemoDB, MailDB, NetworkDB, ExpenseDB, CitiesDB, LauncherDB, and some others. I do not know if/how these get sync'd, though. You might find that your Memo Pad *does* get sync'd, but I cannot say for sure. > 2. If those apps get sync'ed with Evo, how good is the compatibility > between the way PalmOS does those things, and the way Evo does them? Can > i import Categories from ToDo List into Tasks? An address item in the > Address Book - does it get 100% translated into Contacts with no > information loss? Here's my take: -recurring events are fine in Evolution, but get screwed up when the land on the Palm. -Addressbook items have to choose (one only! :-( ) business address, home address, or other. Multiple e-mail addresses move fine from Evolution to the Palm. multiple phone numbers move OK, except where you have two of the same-field-name (ie if you have a friend with 2 cel-phone numbers, only one will make it onto your Palm). > Can i continue to edit my Memo Pad on Linux? I do not see a way. There may be; I could certainly make use of this feature > 3. Is it easy to install PalmOS apps? It appears that there is this feature in one of the Gnome conduits, but I used a standalone piece of software. It's been a while though - the apps on my PalmV have been stable for a couple of years now. > 4. Can i easily restore my PDA from the last backup after i suffer a > total data loss? (like, dead battery) I hope so, but have never tried. > 5. Time sync'ing the PDA? Just checked - nope. > I would love to be able to continue to use JPilot, and yet synchronise > it somehow with Evolution. Within Evolution, you can set the conduits to either sync, write-to-pilot, or pull-from-pilot (ie you can set who is the master). I find this useful - at work, I push from Evolution to my pilot, and at home I pull from my Pilot to Evolution at home. If I edited extensively on my Palm, it's a couple of mouse-clicks to alter this hierarchy, and either sync or push data in the other direction. An editorial comment regarding gnome-pilot: I had extensive difficulties under RH7.3 and RH8 with gnome-pilot. For perhaps 6 months or more after an update, I couldn't get my PalmV to talk to my Linux boxes at all :-( RH9 is much better, but when I log in, gpilotd (the daemon which listens for a hotsync) always needs to be started manually. At least I can sync my stuff now, though, which is a major improvement. Still, if *I* were applying a revision-level to gnome-pilot/Evolution, it would be about 0.50. HTH, -Gord -- Gordon Pritchard, P.Eng. | Institute of Electrical and Research Labs Manager | Electronics Engineers Simon Fraser University, Surrey | Quarter Century Wireless Ass'n gordonp@xxxxxx | Telephone Pioneers of America phone: 604.268.7509 | Amateur Radio: VA7SFU, VA7GP
