Comments on: SyncEvolution + Funambol iPhone plugin: how they are related

By: Andys Blog

Andys Blog — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:55:08 +0000

Linux, SyncML, PIM, Groupwares, iPhone – ein Kessel Frust…

Seit den ersten Schritten verfolge ich Sync4J bzw. Funambol, sowie das ganze Groupware-Geraffel drumherum. Die Möglichkeit, sein Büro (oder genauer: alle wichtigen Mails sowie PIM = im wesentlichen Kontakte, Kalender, Todos und Memos) ortsunabhäng…

By: SyncEvolution - The Missing Link : Genesis: a SyncEvolution GUI by Frederik Elwert

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:01:26 +0000

[...] promised, Frederik Elwert has written a PyGTK GUI for SyncEvolution that he calls Genesis. I like the name [...]

By: Frederik

Frederik — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 13:48:34 +0000

I took some free time this weekend and hacked on a first try for a SyncEvolution frontend for the GNOME Desktop. You can have a look at http://my.opera.com/freedo/blog/2007/12/02/genesis-a-graphical-frontend-for-syncevolution

I’d really appreciate your comments on this!

By: Patrick Ohly

Patrick Ohly — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:05:03 +0000

Frederik, it would be great to have a GUI. The iPhone GUI really just invokes the command line tool and checks the return code for success/failure. In the case of failure the GUI offers to display the client.log, I’m not sure how Fabrizio finds the location of the client.log (it depends on configuration options) – either he parses the stdout output or hard-coded the default location.

As the command line tool doesn’t currently print any progress messages while the synchronization runs (due to limitations in the client library’s logging mechanism), this does not loose any functionality and works okay, but it clearly lacks visual feedback about the operation.

Post 0.7 I intend to print messages during synchronization; they could be plain text as it is now or we could define a more parse-friendly format (XML?).

By: Frederik

Frederik — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:18:39 +0000

I really like SyncEvolution and I think it’s great that it now comes to some more attention through the use in the iPhone.

But I’d be interested in one detail: Is there any way to communicate with SyncEvolution other than through the command line? How did the authors of that iPhone-GUI to it? Did the parse the stdout to show the success of the sync?
I’m thinking about writing a simple PyGTK GUI for syncevolution to make it a bit more comfortable to use. So do I have to parse stdout or are there more elegant ways?

By: SyncEvolution - The Missing Link : Address Book Synchronization Mentioned on iPhone Hacks Blog

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:27:49 +0000

[...] plug-in. Unfortunately they completely missed the fact that the real work of synchronizing contacts is done by SyncEvolution. The article seems to be a rewrite of the Funambol iPhone solutions page. Further information would [...]

By: SyncML fürs iPhone

SyncML fürs iPhone — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 09:47:06 +0000

[...] Nachdem mit der Autor des iPhone-Connectors auf den genauen Sachverhalt hingewiesen hat, möchte ich explizit erwähnen, dass das Plugin für das iPhone und den [...]