Re: [Opensync-users] Google Calendar Plugin?

[Aaron W. <li...@wh...>]

Hi Japa,

Marcos "Japa" Umino wrote:

> I didn't knew such thing was possible. Really, I only tried syncinc
> gpe to evolution. Are you talking about "possibilities" or tools that
> already exist?

According to Koen they exist ;). I remember a post somewhere saying that
it was possible but couldn't find the post again.

> IF the calendar server supports updates, it already has integrated
> tools for receiving updates via web. Then, writing a host in this
> case, may add a layer of complexity which, imo, will only be useful,
> if we can implement the "host-based" sync on other devices. However,
> I'm not sure about this. My NGage can beam contact thru bluetooth to
> my ipaq running linux. U see, each PIM device app will need to
> implement hooks for host 2 host sync. I guess I need more opinions...
> :)

My gut feeling is that you would be better having the opensync framework
doing the communication with Google-Calendar and make sure that GPE and
OPIE can properly use the framework to pull and convert the data into
the generic format you are designing. The advantage that I see here is
that then all opensync apps could do everything with the Google-Calendar
as well. As far as I see it, that would allow you to sync to Google from
your PIM or your handheld device over the device's http connection. I
don't know enough technical details to help you further, however. Armin?

The main reason that I posted was that I wanted to let you know that a
KDE SoC student will, according to:
http://code.google.com/soc/kde/about.html
be working on "KDEPIM Google Calendar synchronization using OpenSync".
This implies to me that you would be much better using the framework as
much as possible because you can freeload off their work ;)!

Hope this helps,

Aaron