On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 12:09:48PM +1100, Nick Jenkins wrote: [Big snip of description of many/most of the paces I have been too]
> > == General comments == > > * This is not easy. Any attempt to pretend this is easy is incorrect. My > grandma could not do this. My mother could not do this. Most normal > people will simply not do this many steps. As soon as it requires using > the command line, changing repositories, or anything like that, most > normal people just won't do it. Agree - I'm a command line junkie having used Unix based systems since the early 1980s, but it needs some perseverence to get it working. > * This is not quick. Any attempt to pretend this is quick is incorrect. > Most people will give up long before spending this much time (58 minutes > in my case) on getting it to work. Especially when the other methods are > buggy, it makes you far less inclined to spend the time seeing if yet > another method works, since you start to suspect it's an intractable > problem. > * The main solution to the above 2 problems, so I can't emphasise this > enough: Please please please add Ubuntu packages for syncevolution and > genesis-sync to the standard repositories. From what I understand, > Fedora gets this right, and has packages. If "aptitude install > syncevolution genesis-sync" had worked out-of-the-box, it would have > saved a LOT of time, and made it much easier. > > == Bugs == > > Having said all this, the Funambol method is still a little bit buggy / > incomplete. I particularly notice this with addresses: > Supposedly using ScheduleWorld rather than myFunambol is better. However that really only points to the fact that different servers and different clients may have different problems. > * It doesn't seem to sync a contact's "other" address from evolution to > the phone, as far as I can tell. In fact, it managed to delete an > "other" address from one of my evolution contacts, probably after I > modified the contact on the phone, and then the other address that I > previously had in evolution ended up blank. I would personally prefer > that syncing didn't delete my data :-) > * If a contact has a home address in evolution, I sometimes seem to end > up with both a straight "address" on the phone, and a "home > address" (i.e. 2 addresses from 1). Then if I change the "home address", > in evolution, the "home address" on the phone updates, but the "address" > does not. ... but, if I delete the "address" on the phone, then the > "home address" in evolution sometimes also gets deleted. So there's > something odd going on here. > * I have one contact that I edited multiple times on both the phone and > in evolution, and then synced both (i.e. sync computer, sync phone, sync > computer), so that it should all be in sync, but ended up with the > address on the phone and the address on the computer out-of-sync (i.e. > two different street addresses, yet syncing did not update either, and > no warnings at either end about a conflict or being out-of-sync). > Different problems (in the main) from what I encountered but it's all down to it being near impossible to translate one device's idea of contact details to another client's view of the same thing. > It's hard to know where these problems originate from, since there are > so many different bits of software involved, - at least 5 by my count: > Evolution <-> SyncEvolution <-> Genesis <-> Funambol <-> Nokia's sync > software on the phone; and presumably there could be problems at any > stage of that chain. > > So some problems, but overall it seems to work, and it does work better > than the other methods I have tried, and once it's running, it seems > extremely easy to use, both on the phone and on the computer. > -- Chris Green _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
