Hello list, I am aware that my question may seem to be quite offensive, but please believe me that I don´t mean to complain about the software "snyce" itself, but about the way the installation process. And I wrote about this to the list some months ago, but this time, my goal is to make all of this more easy and understandable for so-called "newbies".
I am using Kubuntu Feisty with Kontact and my goal is to synchronize my HTC PDA (adress book and calendar). I got that far that generally, I can copy files to the PDA with "pls", as described in the synce-wiki. But the further step as described on http://www.synce.org/index.php/SyncEngine leads to desperation: Installation of the sync-plugin does not work. No matter where I copy "opensync-plugin.py", the command "msynctool --listplugins" does not show any installed plugin. Now, I am using an apt-repository for opensync, as I do think that compiling all this stuff listed on the link above may lead any new linux user to installing windows on a separate partition and quit even trying synce. Apt is user-friendly (as far as I can see), and thats where we should continue the way we´re thinking here. On the link above, we can read that the place of the path where opensync-plugins are installed may vary. But that´s exactly the point where I think that the developers should simply think another way: If developers of such software as synce simply would say: "okay, we´re going to install all parts of our software at a specific place, there wouldn´t be any problems with paths". Think about this: If the people who are creating apt-packages wouldn´t have the choice where to install libs, binaries etc, the end-user would appreciate it, because the installation process would be much more easier. Sure, this would lead to other discussions, but I think that we should see the benefits of such a way of thinking: If people can USE software in a easy way, they would surely agree to give up the DISCUSSION about IDEOLOGIES behind it. And if people gave up exactly that discussion about GPLed software, we all would go one step further in the plan to make people use free software, because it then would be NATURAL to use it - and no discussion would arise simply because of EXISTING free analogies to commercial software. What you all think of this? Regards, Dennis -- Psssst! Schon vom neuen GMX MultiMessenger gehört? Der kanns mit allen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/multimessenger ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ SynCE-Devel mailing list SynCE-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/synce-devel
