Re: KDE 4.2 KPilot coming! (how to both be excited and have realistic expectations)

On Monday 19 January 2009 18:09:51 Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper wrote:
> We're using Akonadi for syncing your data in KDE 4.2! This is also really
> good goodness! This will allow us (eventually, once the Akonadi back ends
> are written) to sync your Palm pilot with an Exchange data source, or a
> Google calendar, etc., etc. The realistic immediate view, though, is that
> KPilot is using and relying on a really new Akonadi solution. KDE PIM 4.2
> is still not fully ported to using Akonadi purely, although we have bridge
> resources as an interim solution. This means that before you can sync with
> KDE's 4.2 KPilot, you need to add an Akonadi resource for each data type
> (Calendar, Contacts, etc.), then change your KDE PIM applications to use
> that (korganizer, kaddressbook, etc.), and then reconfigure KPilot's
> conduits to use those new Akonadi data sources. There are glitches to be
> found in all these layers, to be sure!!  In my testing, it looks like you
> have to hit reload in korganizer to see kpilot changes to akonadi's cache
> after a HotSync, for example. Also, it's a manual process to convert your
> PIM data sources to Akonadi resources so KPilot can sync with them. This
> MUST be done, since KPilot now syncs only with Akonadi data sources.
> Together, we'll be finding (hopefully just a few) bugs in KPilot, the new
> KDE PIM code, and Akonadi. The pay-offs for all of this work are immense,
> but we need to have realistic expectations about it too.

Note that there is a tool to do the Akonadi setup automatically, 
kres-migrator. With a recent version of libakonadi it will be run 
automatically when starting KPilot, if it doesn't you can also run it 
manually:
kres-migrator --omit-client-bridge --interactive

regards
Volker

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