[Gpe-list] gpesyncd for Nokia 770

[Graham Cobb]

On Friday 17 November 2006 17:31, Graham Cobb wrote:
> Contacts are working fine.  I can synchronise with Opensync and hence with
> Outlook and kontact.

I'm no longer sure Contacts are working fine -- I have seen some problems.

> But Calendar is not working.  Opensync runs fine and gpesyncd writes the
> entries to the database but GPE Calendar does not see them.

I have looked at the code and I am now sure the problem is that gpesyncd does 
not understand the current database format.

I am about to try modifying gpesyncd to use the vcard/ical import and export 
code from the latest versions of gpe-calendar and gpe-contacts instead of 
manipulating the database directly.  Does anyone know of any reason why that 
wouldn't work?  It would, of course, make gpesyncd dependent on various 
shared libraries but no one would be using gpesyncd unless they have either 
gpe-calendar or gpe-contacts installed.

If this works, I would strongly encourage the maintainers of gpe-contacts and 
gpe-calendar to move the vcard/ical import/export code from the applications 
into the appropriate libraries.  That way it could be maintained in one place 
and gpesyncd would remain up to date with any future changes.

Is anyone else already working on these problems with gpesyncd?  If so, I 
won't waste my time (I would be happy to help, of course) but, if not, I will 
have a go.

By the way, I haven't quite worked out what to do about multiple calendar 
support.  My initial plan is to just use the first calendar I find but later 
on we could add a mechanism either to specify the calendar on the command 
line or even add more commands to allow the calendars to be listed and 
selected, which would mean that the gpe plugin for opensync could choose to 
synchronise one or more calendars or all calendars.  But all that is for the 
future.

Graham Cobb