Re: [Opensync-users] Where to start?

[Dotan C. <dot...@gm...>]

2008/11/19 Juha Tuomala <Juh...@ik...>:
> On Wednesday 19 November 2008 17:34:48 Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> I need to sync my KDE-PIM calendar with either my Nokia E71 or my
>> Nokia 6288.
>
> I've E71 too here. And i use KDE.
>

Excellent, this is encouraging.

>> Opensync 0.22 is already installed on my Kubuntu 8.04 (KDE
>> 3.5.10) machine.
>
> Good news: 0.2x versions have kdepim plugin
> Bad news: 0.2x does not really work, that's why the big changes started for 0.40.
>

Which will not be ready for some time, I understand.

> Part of my last week meeting's action points were to make some
> kind of guidelines for wiki and it's due tomorrow so this will
> get better today evening.
>

Excellent, I will refer back to the docs next week when I have some
more time. Thanks.

>> So I then turned to Google and searched on the keywords "kde,
>> opensync, nokia". I did not get very far. Where to go from here? This
>> is not a troll but a real question: Is opensync meant to be used by
>> regular joes like me (mechanical engineers, not computer programmers)?
>
> Yes it is. Part of the goals for 0.40 release were to make it way much
> easier in many ways and it has already achived quite a few of them. One
> is to make configuration easier. We're already working with the installation
> docs. Once we get the 0.40 release out, all distros will pick it and you don't
> have to worry about the installation, which is somewhat laborious at the
> moment.
>

This is very encouraging. So long as the project is moving in that
direction. I am patient, and can scrape by today.

>> If so, where is the documentation?
>
>  http://www.opensync.org/wiki/TitleIndex
>

Regarding KDE, I see a message that Novel sponsored an opensync-kde
meeting in 2005. Other than that, there is a problem/solution page
that is so far over my head that I will not even begin to google the
terms on the page at this stage.

> is all wiki pages there are. that's autogenerated and like typical wiki, we
> have not had anyone really looking the big picture but everyone have scratched
> something where finds a suitable place and thus there is a lot of repeating,
> empty pages and outdated information as code has moved faster than docs.
>
> Short answer to your questions is:
>
> current opensync might work as 0.2x what you probably find from your distro.

How do I test that? I have here a phone, a usb cable, a bluetooth
connection, and a laptop computer. What should I do first? Second?

> if it doesn't, you need some hacking skills to install the current svn version
> which works better, but still has some annoying bugs. You might want to wait
> few weeks it to get better. See the roadmap for open tickets.
>

I am willing to test SVN. I can backup both the phone and the laptop.
How to build?

>> I thank you in advance and apologize for the provocative nature of
>> this post, but there is no better way to word it.
>
> Well, you're not the first one. This is one of the most annoying missing
> feature on opensource desktop. I was one of you, swearing it after wasting
> countless hours trying to make it work.
>

I do contribute docs to some small opensource programs that I use (Zim
wiki, for example). However you do not want _me_ to write the docs for
opensync! If I do manage to get my E71 and KDE-PIM syncing, however, I
promise to document and publish the method.

> I cannot code good c-code. But still, I came to irc channel, tried to help
> everywhere I can and belive me, there is more things to do than I've time.
> We welcome you to join to help us (which you already did by giving feedback
> about web/docs).
>

Nor can I code in C. I will join the IRC channel when I have some
time. Is there a preferable weekday / hour when knowledgable people
are on IRC?

Thanks!

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