Re: [Kde-pim] KDE 4.2 KPilot coming! (how to both be excited and have realistic expectations)

does this have any impact on those of us using Windows Mobile devices? We will 
eventually be able to sync those devices with a linux workstation?

-Eric

On Thursday 22 January 2009 10:53:01 Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 6:17 AM, Volker Krause <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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
>
> Cool! Will this change be distributed with KDE 4.2? This is _very_ good
> news! =:)
>
> Thanks Volker!

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