Palm Sync oddities

[Bernhard Reiter]

Am Dienstag, 15. November 2005 14:09 schrieb T. Ribbrock:
> I'm not sure whether this is a kolab specific problem or more a SuSE/KDE
> problem, but I'll try it here for starters...
>
> In the course of our evaluation, I'm currently experimenting with
> syncing a Palm (IIIxe serial and m515 USB) to kontact/kolab. 
>
> Most tests 
> were succesful, however, there are a couple of oddities:
>
> - If I delete an appointment on the Palm, it gets re-created after a sync
>   (instead of the version in kolab being deleted). kpilot is currently set
>   to "HotSync" and "ask user if conflicts". The other way round
>   (deleting in kontact deletes Palm version) works fine, as does two-way
>   creation.
>
> - If I change an appointment/to-do on the Palm (e.g. change the end date
>   of a recurring event, add a note or suchlike), it will show up as a
>   *new* appointment in kontact after the next sync. Also, the original
>   version will additionally show up on the Palm after the sync.
>
> Anybody out there who can shed some light on this?

It is known that kpilot does not work perfectly yet.
If you find a good way to recreate this,
please file a bug with the Kolab Tracker _and_ with the KDE tracker.

> Versions:
> - kolab 2.0.1 (unpatched so far) on SuSE 9.3
> - kontact 1.1.2 (SuSE 10.0/KDE 3.4.2 Level "b")
> - kmail 1.8.2 (SuSE 10.0/KDE 3.4.2 Level "b")
> - korganizer 3.4.2 (SuSE 10.0/KDE 3.4.2 Level "b")
> - kpilot 4.5.4 (SuSE 10.0/KDE 3.4.2 Level "b")

I am unfamiliar with the patches that Suse does to their korganizer
and kpilot packages, so there is still a remote chance that this is a Suse
problem, but I doubt it.