On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 09:25 +0000, Chris G wrote: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:11:45AM +0000, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > > > > > > Ummmm... no offense, but just looking at your instructions for changing > > > machines makes me think that the design of evolution is a bit insane. I > > > really don't feel like what I want to do should be that difficult. I > > > figured > > > since evolution is the default calendar for most linux systems, it > > > wouldn't > > > be... well such a pain to work with on multiple machines. > > > > > > > The issue really is that Evo is a client program, it was never designed > > to offer the data that it uses to other programs, it was designed to be > > a consumer of data from elsewhere. > > > The whole "synchronization" process is a can of worms in my opinion,
I agree. > the idea that you need a 'server' and separate clients makes it all so > unnecessarily complicated for the situation that 99% of users want - > synchronization of desktop and PDA (or laptop in the OP's case). > > It's also made complicated by the need to convert to and from various > formats of calendar/contact file with the inevitable issue of things > which are available in on format and not in other formats. That's why SyncML was invented. > I've been struggling with this for a while, I have a Nokia E71 which I > woudl like to synchronize with a simple desktop calendar/tasks program > and (independently maybe) with a desktop address book. As far as I > can tell there is *nothing* out there that fulfils this requirement. > > There are several huge (mostly positively baroque) groupware suites > that will synchronize with my phone but they're all trying to be more > Outlook than Outlook, far too complex and large for my humble needs. Agreed. I have the same needs and don't want to fight these things either. That's why I use my.funambol.com for my phone. ScheduleWorld is another option. > It is possible to synchronize my E71 with Evolution, using the > Evolution syncMl add-on plus a syncMl server but it's messy and either > needs a server 'out there' or you install Funambol which again is > *huge* (164Mb for a syncMl server, what it's all for?) Or use one that's already set up. See above. > I'm about to investigate what I can due using WebDav, it seems to me > that's the right approach, share a single chunk of data between all > applications rather than trying to 'synchronize' different lumps of data. A distinction without a difference. Unless you expect all your devices to be permanently online and use some kind of locking protocol, you still get to synchronize and resolve clashes. poc _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
