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[Opensync-users] Replacing my phone: what syncs with OpenSync today?

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

First of all, I see that the pace of development has quickened, going
by the timeline:
http://www.opensync.org/timeline

So, congratulations on resuming regular development! I have seen the
Device Compatibility List but I understand it to be outdated, refer to
an old branch (0.2x) and unmaintained. Therefore I ask:

My mobile provider is giving me the oportunity to upgrade to one of
the following devices:
Nokia n85
Nokia n97
Sony-Erickson w995

I need to sync contacts and calendar with the KDE-PIM suite (KDE 4.4
soon, with the new Kaddressbook and Akonadi). The language is not
ascii based, so it will need to support unicode characters. Which
device is preferable for syncing? I can wait a few weeks for the 0.4x
branch to stabilize, but I must know which device is preferable.
Thanks.

An aside: if anybody here owns the N85 or N97 I would like to ask some
questions about the phone off-list. Please contact me off-list if I
can bother you with some questions. Thanks.

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Re: [Opensync-users] Replacing my phone: what syncs with OpenSync today?

[Bernhard R. <ber...@in...>]

Am Mittwoch, 3. Februar 2010 21:35:10 schrieb Dotan Cohen:
> My mobile provider is giving me the oportunity to upgrade to one of
> the following devices:
> Nokia n97

I've used an N97 for a few months, it is a solid phone. Symbian S60rev5 based.
(I am switching for other reasons to htc touch pro2 and then to N900.)

> I need to sync contacts and calendar with the KDE-PIM suite (KDE 4.4
> soon, with the new Kaddressbook and Akonadi). The language is not
> ascii based, so it will need to support unicode characters. Which
> device is preferable for syncing? I can wait a few weeks for the 0.4x
> branch to stabilize, but I must know which device is preferable.

Note that the akonadi opensync resource is in flux as far as I know. It is 
probably relatively easy to get it fixed again, but a few weeks ago people 
assured me that it is broken so far. So you should check into that question,
which is independ of the phone.

I've tried the following libraries from opensync:
 libwbxml-0.10.7
 libsyncml-0.5.4
and was successful to export my contacts once, as reported to this list
in November.

> An aside: if anybody here owns the N85 or N97 I would like to ask some
> questions about the phone off-list. Please contact me off-list if I
> can bother you with some questions. Thanks.

I do not have the phone in my pocket anymore. So it really depends on the 
questions if I can help, because my time is very limited, but you can try and 
I see what I can answer. No promisses. :)

Bernhard

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Re: [Opensync-users] Replacing my phone: what syncs with OpenSync today?

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

On 5 February 2010 17:25, Bernhard Reiter <ber...@in...> wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 3. Februar 2010 21:35:10 schrieb Dotan Cohen:
>> My mobile provider is giving me the oportunity to upgrade to one of
>> the following devices:
>> Nokia n97
>
> I've used an N97 for a few months, it is a solid phone. Symbian S60rev5 based.
> (I am switching for other reasons to htc touch pro2 and then to N900.)
>

I just took a look at it. Ak! I cannot use that touch interface. Oh,
well, we tried!


>> I need to sync contacts and calendar with the KDE-PIM suite (KDE 4.4
>> soon, with the new Kaddressbook and Akonadi). The language is not
>> ascii based, so it will need to support unicode characters. Which
>> device is preferable for syncing? I can wait a few weeks for the 0.4x
>> branch to stabilize, but I must know which device is preferable.
>
> Note that the akonadi opensync resource is in flux as far as I know. It is
> probably relatively easy to get it fixed again, but a few weeks ago people
> assured me that it is broken so far. So you should check into that question,
> which is independ of the phone.
>

Would that be a question for the OpenSync team, or the KDE Akonadi team?

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Re: [Opensync-users] Replacing my phone: what syncs with OpenSync today?

[Bjoern R. <bjo...@go...>]

Am 06.02.10 17:36, schrieb Dotan Cohen:
> On 5 February 2010 17:25, Bernhard Reiter <ber...@in...> wrote:
>   
>> Am Mittwoch, 3. Februar 2010 21:35:10 schrieb Dotan Cohen:
>>     
>>> My mobile provider is giving me the oportunity to upgrade to one of
>>> the following devices:
>>> Nokia n97
>>>       
>> I've used an N97 for a few months, it is a solid phone. Symbian S60rev5 based.
>> (I am switching for other reasons to htc touch pro2 and then to N900.)
>>
>>     
> I just took a look at it. Ak! I cannot use that touch interface. Oh,
> well, we tried!
>
>
>   
>>> I need to sync contacts and calendar with the KDE-PIM suite (KDE 4.4
>>> soon, with the new Kaddressbook and Akonadi). The language is not
>>> ascii based, so it will need to support unicode characters. Which
>>> device is preferable for syncing? I can wait a few weeks for the 0.4x
>>> branch to stabilize, but I must know which device is preferable.
>>>       
>> Note that the akonadi opensync resource is in flux as far as I know. It is
>> probably relatively easy to get it fixed again, but a few weeks ago people
>> assured me that it is broken so far. So you should check into that question,
>> which is independ of the phone.
>>
>>     
> Would that be a question for the OpenSync team, or the KDE Akonadi team?
>
>   
I guess it depends more on the OpenSync team because to most KDE
developers aren't satisfied with opensync. But as a opensync developer
and my kde-pim related job I am really sure that there will be a akonadi
and N900 sync plugin in some month. It only depends on my workload and
the free time that I can spend on OpenSync. If anybody else is
interested in developing a akonadi plugin the OpenSync team would be
glad to help of course too.

Re: [Opensync-users] Replacing my phone: what syncs with OpenSync today?

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

> I guess it depends more on the OpenSync team because to most KDE
> developers aren't satisfied with opensync. But as a opensync developer
> and my kde-pim related job I am really sure that there will be a akonadi
> and N900 sync plugin in some month. It only depends on my workload and
> the free time that I can spend on OpenSync. If anybody else is
> interested in developing a akonadi plugin the OpenSync team would be
> glad to help of course too.
>

I see, thanks. I just got the new phone: it is an N86.

What would writing a plugin involve? I am not a programmer, so I doubt
that I can be of any help but if you think otherwise than I will
gladly lend any assistance that I can.

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Re: [Opensync-users] Replacing my phone: what syncs with OpenSync today?

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

>> Would that be a question for the OpenSync team, or the KDE Akonadi team?
>>
>>
> I guess it depends more on the OpenSync team because to most KDE
> developers aren't satisfied with opensync. But as a opensync developer
> and my kde-pim related job I am really sure that there will be a akonadi
> and N900 sync plugin in some month. It only depends on my workload and
> the free time that I can spend on OpenSync. If anybody else is
> interested in developing a akonadi plugin the OpenSync team would be
> glad to help of course too.
>

Bjoern, I usually donate to working projects but if a USD $20 donation
would help speed along the Akonadi-Opensync plugin then just let me
know your Paypal address. I know USD $20 is not much and in no way do
I mean to imply that it would be to pay for coding time. Rather, I
mean it as a way of saying thanks for the work that you are doing for
the community.

Actually, I think that I did once donate to Opensync some years ago.
After that was the reason that I started only donating to projects
with useful code!

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Re: [Opensync-users] Replacing my phone: what syncs with OpenSync today?

[Marc D. i A. <dam...@gm...>]

On Sunday 07 February 2010 21:58:48 Bjoern Ricks wrote:
> I guess it depends more on the OpenSync team because to most KDE
> developers aren't satisfied with opensync. But as a opensync developer
> and my kde-pim related job I am really sure that there will be a akonadi
> and N900 sync plugin in some month. It only depends on my workload and
> the free time that I can spend on OpenSync. If anybody else is
> interested in developing a akonadi plugin the OpenSync team would be
> glad to help of course too.

I will be more than glad if the plugin for the N900 comes into play. I have 
some programming knowledge(university knowledge, not  real world's :S) and I 
would love to help. I could also help by testing with my N900 ;)

Cheers,

Damnshock

Re: [Opensync-users] Replacing my phone: what syncs with OpenSync today?

[Bjoern R. <bjo...@go...>]

I haven't tested that yet but because the N900 uses eds as storage backend
for e.g. contacts it should already be possible to use the evo-sync plugin.
I did take a look at the N900 api some days ago and it should be possible to
use the eds api directly without the libosso-abook wrapper. If you are going
to try it please send some feedback to the list.

regards
Bjoern

2010/2/24 Marc Deop i Argemí <dam...@gm...>

> On Sunday 07 February 2010 21:58:48 Bjoern Ricks wrote:
> > I guess it depends more on the OpenSync team because to most KDE
> > developers aren't satisfied with opensync. But as a opensync developer
> > and my kde-pim related job I am really sure that there will be a akonadi
> > and N900 sync plugin in some month. It only depends on my workload and
> > the free time that I can spend on OpenSync. If anybody else is
> > interested in developing a akonadi plugin the OpenSync team would be
> > glad to help of course too.
>
> I will be more than glad if the plugin for the N900 comes into play. I have
> some programming knowledge(university knowledge, not  real world's :S) and
> I
> would love to help. I could also help by testing with my N900 ;)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Damnshock
>