Comments on: Korganizer, Exchange, OWASync, Google Calendar, KPilot

By: Oceanwatcher

Oceanwatcher — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:21:49 +0000

Seems very impressive. A shame it is not available on KDE yet! Look like it could have solved all my sync problems.

No Plaxo sync yet, though. I really wish the KDE addressbook would sync with Plaxo…

By: The Test Freak

The Test Freak — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:11:21 +0000

I guess Evolution wouldn’t be so buggy of Evolution’s developers could get used to reading big distributions’ bug trackers and keep contact with the testing community.

Without proper Exchange 2007 support Linux is not usuable for many (most?) employees.

By: DrK

DrK — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:14:52 +0000

As sad as it sound (and it is pretty pathetic, since I really like my Android G1 phone), the best way to get Exchange support on Linux is VirtualBox + WinXP Pro + Outlook.

This is largely due to *surprise* M$’s lack of standards, and wild interpretations when they do claim to use them (e.g. IMAP4 and ical which even with demangling enabled in Korganizer still doesn’t work).

Google is far from innocent in this last regard. They *could* support LDAP and vcard for contacts, and their ical support is a wee bit spotty to say the least.

By: J. Jordan

J. Jordan — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:08:37 +0000

I have been searching for the Holy Grail of sync for more than ten years. I have spent the last several hours trying to get syncevolution to broker between Kontact and Scheduleworld (works but Kaddressbook has problems editing vCards, Korganizer has problems editing vCal files for events and todos.

I think next I will try Gcaldamon for events and stick with syncevolution for contacts. Funambol works on the WM6 side so that is not really an issue.

One tip: I don’t want my entire work calendar at home or on my PDA so when a meeting or event comes up that I do want I just invite my Gmail address as an attendee.

-j

By: tommix

tommix — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:41:34 +0000

to sync Google-Calendar you can use GPE-Calendar Erminig.

By: Adenilson Cavalcanti

Adenilson Cavalcanti — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:01:17 +0000

Maybe in near future opensync will be able to do that… there are people working in an akonadi plugin for it (and also google data).

The syncml plugin is pretty capable, being functional with cellphones using bluetooth.

Regards

Adenilson

By: AQ

AQ — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 07:46:30 +0000

Hi, have you tried Chandler?
Give it a shot, it worth trying!
http://chandlerproject.org/

By: maninalift

maninalift — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:00:52 +0000

Oh “Permits semantic desktop infrastructure **to access** PIM data”.

I misread that as something about permitting semantic structure, hence I thought the more flexible concept of tags would supersede folders. But I guess not.

Kmail is still cool.

By: maninalift

maninalift — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:34:37 +0000

The Akonadi feature list at http://pim.kde.org/akonadi/ lists:

# Permits semantic desktop infrastructure to access PIM data
# Archiving
# Indexing

Does this mean that when KMail moves to akonadi, it will be able to sync properly with Googlemail (i.e. see tags rather than seperate folders).

I guess that there are probably limitations with IMAP but these could probably be worked around or heuristically overcome…. maybe. Perhaps Google even provides a way to access this information.

By: Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper

Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:35:20 +0000

@Mike: Yeah, actually, you should be able to find some nightly/weekly kubuntu KDE 4.2/trunk beta packages? KPilot should be available that way. That’ll be the best. Or, you can do it the hard way and try to compile it yourself, but that’s much more error-prone.

@Will Stephenson: Heya! =:) Actually, I was talking about it… that was the “not quite there yet”… based on an e-mail I thought I saw from Brad a while ago saying that due to real life (and BOY I can relate!), the openchange/akonadi stuff won’t be ready for 4.2. And yeah, you’re right… I really should pitch in and help, especially being that there’s not that many KDE PIM people to begin with, much less those who have access (whether they want it or not) to an Exchange server. =:/

@Brad Hards: Hi!! =:) Actually, I was looking for exactly that sort of thing–the exchange2ical utility, thank you!!! In fact, I looked around openchange.org a bit, looking for something like that, but didn’t have much luck. So, I will definitely be looking at and into that. Thanks for the comment, and thanks very much to the pointer to exchange2ical! I will be very excited if it does a better job than OWASync!!!