On Thursday 05 March 2009 18:15:39 Daniel T Chen wrote: > On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > > could sync with Ubuntu. Wouldn't the appropriate way to address this be > > to have a PDA-syncing application that could work with their Nokia, > > Apple, Google, RIM, and yes, Palm, devices? Having a Palm-only syncing > > application included by default still leaves the majority of PDA & > > smartphone users stuck trying to find a way to make their device work. > > Okay, I'll take up your strawman. Supposing there is an equivalently > featureful, unbranded sync app, then your proposal makes sense. > > Have you checked whether opensync has incorporated the support? >
The Palm sync legacy tools (gpilot and kpilot, and standalone apps like jpilot) not only do a PIM sync, but also do a full backup of apps and data, and can be used to install files to the Palm device, similarly to the Palm Desktop application. These features were not supported by the opensync palm plugin last time I checked, and it's a serious feature loss that Palm users are usually used to depend on (as seen from xkcd.com, wikipedian protester: citation needed, ymmv). But I agree that the general 'one lib to rule them all' approach from opensync is the best thing in the long run. It's just not there yet. And apparently the development is slow, considering 0.22 is still the stable release as recommended by the opensync site. regards FF -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
