Re: [SyncEvolution] SyncEvolution on Harmattan
Hello,
thanks for your replies!
On 21.07.2011 10:39, Patrick Ohly wrote:
>> SyncEvolution supports MeeGo and is preinstalled on the
Netbook images
>> but seems to be not available on Harmattan?
>
> Hmm. Interesting. I had assumed SyncEvolution would be available on
> Harmattan.
No, Nokia wanted to use their own solution, Buteo.
Roman, I haven't followed what Nokia did with Buteo in Harmattan. Which
SyncML servers does it support?
Hmmm, how can I find out?
Besides mail for exchange it allows to add an CalDAV account. Is this a
SyncML protocol that'd allow me to sync to a Funambol server?
If yes, it is only for calendar, I suppose?
Besides there exists a sync functionality (I guess this is Buteo?) that
just allows syncing via Bluetooth. I used this successfully to sync with
my N900.
>> Are there plans to support Harmattan?
>
> I suppose you might have to wait until I get a N9 - unless someone else
> does it first. (Or, I suppose, someone gives me their N950, but I won't
> be holding my breath waiting for that.)
I have neither a N950 nor a N9 and no plans to compile SyncEvolution for
Harmattan myself.
Is there something I can contribute to motivate you / accelerate this?
Of course, I am more than available for any testing activities.
Also, I am willing to contribute directly. I have programing skills but
no experience with PIM or syncing, and MeeGo/Harmattan neither.
> I'm not sure. I took a look at some Harmattan docs, and it
seems that
> calendar-backend may have been replaced with "mkcal". Perhaps
> SyncEvolution's existing kcalextended backend would work with mkcal. For
> contacts, I suspect they now use qtcontacts instead of ebook, so perhaps
> SyncEvolution's qtcontacts backend would also work.
Both backends should indeed work with the PIM storages in Harmattan.
Initially, I wrote them to have some way of experimenting with these
storages, later the mKCal backend became relevant for a while for CalDAV
syncing in MeeGo.
MeeGo no longer uses mKCal/QtContacts-Tracker, so both backends are
effectively unmaintained until someone picks them up again. If someone
does, I'd be happy to keep them in SyncEvolution.
Kind regards,
Roman