Re: Palm and MrProject

Richard Hult <[email protected]> 12 Nov 2002 13:41:37 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.apps.mr-project.devel
Message-ID <1037104897.3966.122.camel@sliff>
sön 2002-11-10 klockan 16.26 skrev Kurt Maute:
> > > It would be interested if the PDA part could be
> > shared here and a common
> > > protocol to send the data. Then we can use
> > gnome-pilot to access the PDA
> > > from MrProject and Taskjuggler can use pilot-link
> > directly (it's a
> > > console based tool, right?)
> > 
> > That would be the right way to do it. We'll have to
> > find someone with some
> > experience on PalmOS to develop a view and edit app
> > for the data and that will
> > beam the altered data back. Pilot link can do both
> > if an conduit is engineered for it.
> 
> I had a different thought on the direction for this
> sort of functionality.  Most email programs now
> include task management, and also synch with Palm and
> other PDA's.  At my office, we use Outlook, which
> allows me to send tasks to other people and to get an
> update when the task is completed.
> 
> IMHO, it seems to me that if MrProject could be made
> to send task requests to the major email software
> packages, then the Palm part would be handled as a
> side effect.

Good point, I never thought of it that way :)

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