[TriLUG] kpilot (Palm Pilot under KDE/Linux)

[Chris Hedemark]

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On Sunday 13 January 2002 04:24 pm, you wrote:
> I've used JPilot successfully for quite a while now.  It's fairly easy
> to configure, has an interface that is easy to learn (if you know how to
> use your Pilot/Handspring), and to which you can add modules for
> different Palm apps, so that you can manage those under JPilot as well.

Hi Ben,

Thanks for the heads up on JPilot.  Here's the problem I had with it, and 
some others I found.  It seems that you are forced into using a standalone 
app to maintain your contacts if you use JPilot or any of the other 
Palm<->UNIX sync apps out there.  That renders it pretty useless if whatever 
mail client you are using doesn't use the address book for that app.

I was hoping to find something more integrated, where the palm data syncs to 
a relevant app that is actually used by the mail client.  Same for the 
calendar.  That's why I had high hopes for the KDE apps since they are all so 
tightly integrated.  KMail uses the KAB database for contacts, which KPilot 
will (when it works) sync with.  KOrganizer also is supposed to integrate 
with everything else.

One glorious time, it worked, and I had bidirectional sync.  So I started 
moving my contacts over to KAB.  Got about 30 people in there and did another 
test before going further.  Never worked again.  KPilot just doesn't sync 
anymore.

The Ximian web page is disappointing in that there is very little information 
about their products at all, especially with regards to dependencies.  I let 
Evolution's src.rpm download over a long period and it seems that they depend 
on an OLDER version of DB3 from what I have.  Ouch.  It wouldn't build.  So I 
downloaded the precompiled binaries and it bombed with a looooong list of 
unfulfilled dependencies.  Now I love Linux and all but this is a great 
example of the worst parts of it.  Syncing a palm on Windoze is a no brainer. 
 It seems doing this on Linux is a major project.  :-(

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