KDE-Pim/Pi 1.9.6 Release

[mikew]

Zautrix

Did the following

Changed an appointment in Outlook/Exchange 2000 from 09/12/04 to 16/11/04, meeting time unchanged at 10-12 am.

Accepted an Outlook/Exchange appointment for 1 hour, from 11.00 am on the 15/10/04.

Synchronised Outlook using Intellisync.

Synchronised KO/PI using Sharp DTM Sync.

Could not see the 15/10/04 meeting, assumed something went wrong & repeated last 2 lines above, all entries to be synchronised were zero. (Meeting for 16/11/04 was in correct location)

Checked Sharp Callendar application & 15/10/04 meeting was in the correct location.

Noticed that the 15/10/04 meeting was located on 15/11/04.

Opened 15/11/04 meeting & it showed correct details for 15/10/04, added 'bb' to the end of the meeting summary line selected OK. Entry with 'bb' added appeared on 15/11/04, entry without 'bb' appeared on 15/10/04. Re-opened 15/10/04 entry which took a very long time.

Run Sharp-DTM sync from KO/PI, entry for 15/10/04 meeting appears twice in Sharp Callendar, one with & one without the 'bb', no entry for 15/11/04.

Run Intellisync, entry for 15/10/04 meeting appears twice in Outlook, one with & one without the 'bb', no entry for 15/11/04.

Hope the above is comprehensive enough.

Mike

[zautrix]

Zautrix

Did the following

Changed an appointment in Outlook/Exchange 2000 from 09/12/04 to 16/11/04, meeting time unchanged at 10-12 am.

Accepted an Outlook/Exchange appointment for 1 hour, from 11.00 am on the 15/10/04.

Synchronised Outlook using Intellisync.

Synchronised KO/PI using Sharp DTM Sync.

Could not see the 15/10/04 meeting, assumed something went wrong & repeated last 2 lines above, all entries to be synchronised were zero. (Meeting for 16/11/04 was in correct location)

Checked Sharp Callendar application & 15/10/04 meeting was in the correct location.

Noticed that the 15/10/04 meeting was located on 15/11/04.

Opened 15/11/04 meeting & it showed correct details for 15/10/04, added 'bb' to the end of the meeting summary line selected OK. Entry with 'bb' added appeared on 15/11/04, entry without 'bb' appeared on 15/10/04. Re-opened 15/10/04 entry which took a very long time.

Run Sharp-DTM sync from KO/PI, entry for 15/10/04 meeting appears twice in Sharp Callendar, one with & one without the 'bb', no entry for 15/11/04.

Run Intellisync, entry for 15/10/04 meeting appears twice in Outlook, one with & one without the 'bb', no entry for 15/11/04.

Hope the above is comprehensive enough.

Mike

Thx!

Can you save the KO/Pi data and then locate in the mycalendar.ics
(kdepim/apps/korganizer/mycalendar.ics)

the event which is not displayed correctly and send this event to me?

This would help a lot to find and fix that strange bug.

lutz at pi-sync.net

Thx again,

z.

[mikew]

Lutz

File on its way to you.

Mike

[snufkin]

$ cd kdepim/apps/kabc
$ mv std.vcf std.vcf.old
$ tr -d '\r' < std.vcf.old > std.vcf

that works for me as well.

[jerrybme]

zautrix:
Any plans to release a winblows version of 1.9.6? I'm forced to use it at work   and would love to be able to sync my address book when in windblows.
Thanks!
Jerry

[zautrix]

zautrix:
Any plans to release a winblows version of 1.9.6? I'm forced to use it at work   and would love to be able to sync my address book when in windblows.
Thanks!
Jerry

No! :-(

But a version 1.9.7 will be available soon, for the Z and for Wintendo! :-)

It will have a really easy Kx/Pi to Kx/Pi syncing (via network) feature, such that people, who are too stupid to configure the Zaurus<->Window  Sync via ssh ( like me ;-)  )  can sync their Z with KO/Pi and KA/Pi on Windows.

And other useful features, like direct receiving of data via infrared and syncing with mobile phones ( most probably Nokia phones via infrared).

But I have to test the new features first, the mobile phone syncing is actually really complicated.
I am not sure, but maybe then the Zaurus will be the first PDA, which is able to sync with mobile phones.

For those, who don't want to sync is an "export to phone" feature in KA/Pi and KO/Pi.

If everything is working fine, KA/Pi and KO/Pi are more or less feature complete for me.

z.

[jerrybme]

zautrix:
Any plans to release a winblows version of 1.9.6? I'm forced to use it at work   and would love to be able to sync my address book when in windblows.
Thanks!
Jerry

No! :-(

But a version 1.9.7 will be available soon, for the Z and for Wintendo! :-)

It will have a really easy Kx/Pi to Kx/Pi syncing (via network) feature, such that people, who are too stupid to configure the Zaurus<->Window  Sync via ssh ( like me ;-)  )  can sync their Z with KO/Pi and KA/Pi on Windows.

And other useful features, like direct receiving of data via infrared and syncing with mobile phones ( most probably Nokia phones via infrared).

But I have to test the new features first, the mobile phone syncing is actually really complicated.
I am not sure, but maybe then the Zaurus will be the first PDA, which is able to sync with mobile phones.

For those, who don't want to sync is an "export to phone" feature in KA/Pi and KO/Pi.

If everything is working fine, KA/Pi and KO/Pi are more or less feature complete for me.

z.

I look forward to thew 1.9.7 version then. I've got SSh working on my wintendo and am able to copy the contact file back & forth, but I'm looking for the ability to make changes  on either side of the equation and l update both the local & remote versions.

Thanks for all of your work on this project     You've made the Zaurus a true work horse, not only good as a hacking, mp3 & movie playing and warwalking tool but also viable for the corporate environment.

Now, if I could only get my company to dump Groupwise   so I could sync my calendar, instead of maintaining 2 calendars!

Cheers,
Jerry

[amdonati]

Hi Zautrix,

will syncing with mobile phones be possible also via BT?
I suppose yes, but will it be straightforward or will require some hacking?

More and more phones use BT and some do not even have IR anymore (Motorola V525 for example), and thsi option would be definetly great!

Thanks for your great work, I have almost give up Outlook (if it was not for the notes function that syncs sow well with the Shap Pim!)

Adalberto

[ev1l]

Is there a HOWTO anywhere for SSH synching?
User friendliness is so underrated

[komoman]

I found the problem that causes KaPi most likely to crash. The reason is that during
import/sync of external data (like from SharpDTM),
KA/Pi transfers/translates certain characters not correctly.
Please open your addressbook file with an ascii editor and search for the character combination
^M\n

whereas ^M is one carriagereturn (0x0d) character and \n are two ascii characters.
Mostlikely this happens in the NOTES or the ADR entry.
If you remove the ^M character from the spots, you should be able to load the file again.

We are still trying to figure out if this is a problem with the source data when syncing the data into Ka/Pi the first time. (Question: How did you get the data into Ka/Pi when you saw this error. Syncing from DTM?)

Let me know if this workaround helped you.
Ulf

Ulf, That did it!

It's a bit hard to get a ^M into most editors since they confuse it with the Enter key, so just for the record, this is what I did in the command line:

$ cd kdepim/apps/kabc
$ mv std.vcf std.vcf.old
$ tr -d '\r' < std.vcf.old > std.vcf

'tr' is a standard Unix tool that translates a character into another, with the -d option it deletes all occurrences of the given character. \r is the way to tell it to use ^M as a character.

And yes, I did get the data originally with DTM sync and I have my original DTM file, if you need me to do some testing.

Hello everyone,

I just ran into this same problem importing from SharpDTM after importing to there from Outlook.  I am running Watapon's ROM on a 5600.  This is one of the things I love about the Linux/Zaurus communities.  Whenever I run into a problem, I just hop on the forums and somebody has a fix or solution.  A special thanks to mcamou for the command line fix.  I had opened up the file in a text editor and did a search for ^M with no luck.  Running your commands cleaned it up and I can now open KA/Pi.  And with Unison, I am now able to "sync" with my desktop version of KAddressbook.

Al
aka komoman

[dwchapin]

zautrix:
Any plans to release a winblows version of 1.9.6? I'm forced to use it at work   and would love to be able to sync my address book when in windblows.
Thanks!
Jerry

No! :-(

But a version 1.9.7 will be available soon, for the Z and for Wintendo! :-)

It will have a really easy Kx/Pi to Kx/Pi syncing (via network) feature, such that people, who are too stupid to configure the Zaurus<->Window  Sync via ssh ( like me ;-)  )  can sync their Z with KO/Pi and KA/Pi on Windows.

And other useful features, like direct receiving of data via infrared and syncing with mobile phones ( most probably Nokia phones via infrared).

But I have to test the new features first, the mobile phone syncing is actually really complicated.
I am not sure, but maybe then the Zaurus will be the first PDA, which is able to sync with mobile phones.

For those, who don't want to sync is an "export to phone" feature in KA/Pi and KO/Pi.

If everything is working fine, KA/Pi and KO/Pi are more or less feature complete for me.

z.

zautrix --

While I am now quite addicted to kopi especially (I have a C860, a windows laptop for work and a SuSE workstation at home) the one feature I really miss from the vanilla KOrganizer is the ability to (re)parent ToDo's using drag-and-drop.  Right now I can't figure out how to do it at all in kopi without deleting the todo and re-creating it under the intended parent.  

Do you anticipate being able to add this (in the next version or whenever) or is it perhaps not feasable to implement?  Drag-and-drop is always kind of awkward on a PDA, but I believe it's there in Qt/Embedded anyway, and it would be super useful.

[nianderson]

it would be nice to be able to sync a catagory of contacts. im sure it woudl be a pita but if i could sync my Work contacts at work only so my z ends up being a master address book. sync home and personal with my workstation at home. same thing with appointments ect... seperation of data so work dosnt know when im meeting my gf for lunch or when my new job interview is

what does everyone else think
?

[ulf1]

it would be nice to be able to sync a catagory of contacts. im sure it woudl be a pita but if i could sync my Work contacts at work only so my z ends up being a master address book. sync home and personal with my workstation at home....

what does everyone else think
?

For Ka/Pi I can only say that I prefer having all contacts on all devices, computers.
Besides its main purpous, it is a backup of all your data which is always important to have...

Using a filter in Ka/Pi might be solution for you...

~
Ulf

[nianderson]

Yeah i can see where you would want everything everywhere .... just thinking about work and having all my personal contacts loaded and personal appointments ect ...

[zautrix]

Hi Zautrix,

will syncing with mobile phones be possible also via BT?
I suppose yes, but will it be straightforward or will require some hacking?

More and more phones use BT and some do not even have IR anymore (Motorola V525 for example), and thsi option would be definetly great!

Thanks for your great work, I have almost give up Outlook (if it was not for the notes function that syncs sow well with the Shap Pim!)

Adalberto

It should be possible via bluetooth.

But I don't know whether Motorola phones will be synced at all.

The only thing I can say is:
Nokia phones via infrared are working.

z.