Hi;
On 1/15/07, Andrew Flegg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 1/15/07, Martin Grimme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
[development of another PIM suite]
>
> This sounds really interesting. I know that there are already
> applications like dates or GPE-calendar for the N770 but both
> don't fit my needs. Since my idea was to write some sort of
> PIM suite specially for the 770 in the near future, maybe we
> should join efforts.
I don't think GPE is the perfect PIM suite (it is the most mature
we've got, though) and Dates is still very immature. However, is what
you want so diametrically opposed to the aims of these two projects
that you couldn't work with them to improve the existing projects,
rather than creating another?
I guess though similar on the surface in what they do, they are
actually very different in how they go about things. For example
Dates, unlike GPE-cal(afaik), uses a client<->server split and
attempts to align itself more with, and reuse, desktop technologies in
having an optimised EDS backend (which actually gives *alot* for 'free
but not of all that functionality used as yet ). We also wanted to
experiement a bit with the UI as to at least try and come up with
something workable but original that didn't follow the kind of
standard PDA calendar app blueprint.
If it's a case of getting in at the ground floor, the relative youth
of Dates might be more interesting to you; and there are some nice UI
ideas in there which will only improve with decent synchronisation.
> I don't know the people at Opened Hand responsible for Dates, but I
can't believe they wouldn't be interested in the help? Especially from
two talented, enthusiastic programmers.
Of course help is always welcomed, Bugzilla;
http://bugzilla.o-hand.com/buglist.cgi?product=dates
is a good place to start.
Just as a note, Dates is still being developed (we recently released
0.2 for example and have bora packages - maemo.o-hand.com ). We have
basic syncing (This is infact where we have been currently focusing,
admittadly limited ,attention) just not quite at release quality as
yet.
-- Matthew
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