Comments on: SyncEvolution Doesn’t Work? Tell me! http://www.estamos.de/blog/2008/05/08/syncevolution-doesnt-work-tell-me/ About SyncEvolution, writing software and more. Sun, 04 Jul 2010 13:39:24 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1-beta1 hourly 1 By: Patrick Ohly http://www.estamos.de/blog/2008/05/08/syncevolution-doesnt-work-tell-me/comment-page-1/#comment-12660 Patrick Ohly Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:16:58 +0000 http://www.estamos.de/blog/2008/05/08/syncevolution-doesnt-work-tell-me/#comment-12660 Fergus, the next Funambol release will improve support for time zones, but it is not released yet and there still will be issues as far as I know so far. For example, I was told that encoding issues with iCalendar 2.0 won't be addressed. If you need a working calendar synchronization now, then your only option pretty much is ScheduleWorld. Regarding the GUI, someone just volunteered to write an Evolution plugin. That might lead to the simplified setup that you asked for. We'll see. Frederik's "Genesis" also might be useful for you: http://www.estamos.de/blog/2007/12/02/genesis-a-syncevolution-gui-by-frederik-elwert/ As far as a user forum is concerned, I'm not such a big fan of web interfaces and prefer mail for this purpose. The forge.funambol.com gets this right by allowing postings by mail and the web. If there is a need, I could register SyncEvolution and create a dedicated forum there, but I'd prefer to not run something on estamos.de. Any thoughts? Does SyncEvolution need its own forum in addition to the one on ScheduleWorld and the general Funambol user's list (https://core.forge.funambol.org/ds/viewForumSummary.do?dsForumId=405)? Fergus, the next Funambol release will improve support for time zones, but it is not released yet and there still will be issues as far as I know so far. For example, I was told that encoding issues with iCalendar 2.0 won’t be addressed. If you need a working calendar synchronization now, then your only option pretty much is ScheduleWorld.

Regarding the GUI, someone just volunteered to write an Evolution plugin. That might lead to the simplified setup that you asked for. We’ll see. Frederik’s “Genesis” also might be useful for you: http://www.estamos.de/blog/2007/12/02/genesis-a-syncevolution-gui-by-frederik-elwert/

As far as a user forum is concerned, I’m not such a big fan of web interfaces and prefer mail for this purpose. The forge.funambol.com gets this right by allowing postings by mail and the web. If there is a need, I could register SyncEvolution and create a dedicated forum there, but I’d prefer to not run something on estamos.de.

Any thoughts? Does SyncEvolution need its own forum in addition to the one on ScheduleWorld and the general Funambol user’s list (https://core.forge.funambol.org/ds/viewForumSummary.do?dsForumId=405)?

]]> By: Fergus http://www.estamos.de/blog/2008/05/08/syncevolution-doesnt-work-tell-me/comment-page-1/#comment-12602 Fergus Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:33:51 +0000 http://www.estamos.de/blog/2008/05/08/syncevolution-doesnt-work-tell-me/#comment-12602 Patrick, firstly thank you taking the time to put all this effort into a tool. Of all the single developer tools i've seen your work rate is phenomenal. You are giving a lot of people hope that they can leave the outlook/activesync shackles. I have recently moved to evolution and have attempted to sync my contacts and callendar from myfunambol. At first the contacts were fine, but the callendar didn't work. For some reason it works. I cannot explain why but i have just read this topic: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=1193161671.5788.77.camel%40ip6-localhost Could you clarify in recent terms if anything has changed from these statements? Also, just a few thoughts on improvements: i think you could do with a gui just to deal with the config files, its reasonable simple but it takes a little bit to get your head around all the settings. seconldy i think a better user forum would work wonders, the new funambol one is very poor, i actaully preferred the sourceforge one! cheers fergus Patrick, firstly thank you taking the time to put all this effort into a tool. Of all the single developer tools i’ve seen your work rate is phenomenal. You are giving a lot of people hope that they can leave the outlook/activesync shackles. I have recently moved to evolution and have attempted to sync my contacts and callendar from myfunambol. At first the contacts were fine, but the callendar didn’t work. For some reason it works. I cannot explain why but i have just read this topic:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=1193161671.5788.77.camel%40ip6-localhost

Could you clarify in recent terms if anything has changed from these statements?
Also, just a few thoughts on improvements: i think you could do with a gui just to deal with the config files, its reasonable simple but it takes a little bit to get your head around all the settings. seconldy i think a better user forum would work wonders, the new funambol one is very poor, i actaully preferred the sourceforge one!

cheers

fergus

]]> By: Patrick Ohly http://www.estamos.de/blog/2008/05/08/syncevolution-doesnt-work-tell-me/comment-page-1/#comment-8421 Patrick Ohly Fri, 09 May 2008 13:04:53 +0000 http://www.estamos.de/blog/2008/05/08/syncevolution-doesnt-work-tell-me/#comment-8421 Jukey, 0.7 worked fine on my N810 with OS2008. It should work for you, too. Please describe your problem in more detail (here, by email, or in a bug report) and we'll try to figure out what is wrong. 0.8 alpha1 for ITOS2008 also works and is easier to set up (or so I hope). See the blog entry about it for details. However, to install it one has to install the "Dates" application first. This limitation will be removed in the final 0.8 release. Jukey, 0.7 worked fine on my N810 with OS2008. It should work for you, too. Please describe your problem in more detail (here, by email, or in a bug report) and we’ll try to figure out what is wrong.

0.8 alpha1 for ITOS2008 also works and is easier to set up (or so I hope). See the blog entry about it for details. However, to install it one has to install the “Dates” application first. This limitation will be removed in the final 0.8 release.

]]> By: jukey http://www.estamos.de/blog/2008/05/08/syncevolution-doesnt-work-tell-me/comment-page-1/#comment-8418 jukey Fri, 09 May 2008 12:17:04 +0000 http://www.estamos.de/blog/2008/05/08/syncevolution-doesnt-work-tell-me/#comment-8418 I am not able to use syncevolution (0.7) with my N800, OS2008. Is it possible for you to do a sync or should I wait for a new version? I am not able to use syncevolution (0.7) with my N800, OS2008. Is it possible for you to do a sync or should I wait for a new version?

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