On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 10:00:16AM -0500, William Bennett wrote: > First, let me say thanks for the great effort with the Barry project. (I > suppose I should also thank the OpenSync folks, too!) I have my BB > successfully communicating and synchronizing with Linux/KDE-PIM. All of the > following work wonderfully: > - microSD card mounting > - USB mass-storage mode file viewing and transferring > - media management via Amarok > - USB charging > - synchronization of KDE-PIM calendar events
Thanks for the success report! > The only issue I have regards synchronization of KDE-PIM contacts. The > synchronization is setup properly, and runs just fine. The issue is that I > have over 2,000 contacts in KDE-PIM, and don't want to synchronize all of > them to my BB. > > Does Barry currently (or are there plans for Barry in the future to) support > contact categories? I would love to be able to assign all of my > to-be-synchronized KDE-PIM contacts a "BlackBerry" category, and then have > Barry only sync such-categorized contacts. The category support currently in the plugin is more like tagging. The categories should appear in the Blackberry, and match what is in your desktop software. I looked at the opensync source code, and while there is a framework for filters, there doesn't appear to be any implementation. Filters appears to be what you want, so you can filter out what records to sync. Unfortunately this is not supported in opensync 0.22, nor the msynctool command line interface that I have here. The framework is there, though, so in theory, it should be possible for someone to write the filter you need. You might ask on the opensync-users's mailing list to see if anyone has already done that. > Thanks again for a great tool, and please let me know how I can help. I'm not > much of a developer, but would be happy to help in other ways. > > On that note, I did write a how-to detailing my experience getting everything > set up to synchronize between my BlackBerry and KDE-PIM in Kubuntu Hardy: > > http://www.chipbennett.net/wordpress/index.php/2008/05/synchronizing-a-blackberry-in-linux/ Thanks very much. It's great to see howto's springing up on the net like that. > I know that anything I write will likely be very oriented toward > Kubuntu/KDE-PIM, but I'll be happy to keep the how-to updated if it will be > helpful to others. Please do. The more up to date howto's that exist, the easier it will be for new users to Google for the help they need. - Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Barry-devel mailing list Barry-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/barry-devel
