Hi Sheila, Thanks for your email, and thanks for writing an article on syncing with Barry.
Syncing is, unfortunately, still a weak area. It's not just Barry, but the OpenSync project in general. The developer momentum has stalled somewhat. There was a guy on the opensync mailing list working on the akonadi plugin for the devel tree of opensync. It came close, but he ran into some issues in the library that needed fixing, and nobody has gotten back to him yet. As for opensync 0.22, I don't think there is any KDE 4 support there. How much time do you have to work on this? Does your article have a deadline, or would it be possible to work together to help smoothe out the rough edges over the next month or so? Are you able to compile from source, if you get email support? If this sounds good, I'm willing to take a shot at it, and see how far we get with a developer + user. It would be great if you were able to help me test the Barry Desktop GUI as well, and offer feedback on that. That is a work in progress as well, but may be a good workaround for the Blackberry if there is no KitchenSync on KDE 4. Thanks, - Chris On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 03:06:34PM -0500, Sheila Stokes-Begley wrote: > I'm trying to write an article on syncing BlackBerry and Mepis Linux > (based on Debian). I have been able to successfully back up BlackBerry > os 5 and os 6 using Mepis 8.0 based on kde 3. But for the last part of > the wiki article, I was suppose to get it to sync with Mepis 11, which > is based on kde 4. I've installed the same files, except there is no > kitchensync available in synaptic. I see there is a tarball, but I can't > seem to get it to install (my fault, I'm pretty sure). But I'm really > not sure that is the problem. I've downloaded Kontact, the kde-pim, and > all the other files needed, but while it appears to sync (and says it > does) through multisync-gui, none of the data shows up in Kontact. I've > configured through akonadi the calendar and contacts and tried using a > file in both .opensync and .kde/share/apps/korganizer but when I re-open > Kontact, neither contacts nor calender have any data. I used the > barry-sync plugin and have tried both the kde-desktop plugin and the > file-sync plugin in, neither works. On the bright side, Barrybackup does > appear to work! Perfectly. But has anyone had success using barry to > sync a BlackBerry with Linux since kde 4 came out with akonadi? I read > through all the posts on the mailing list since the start of the year, > and haven't found a problem like "it appears to sync, says it did, and > no data is showing up". Can you help? I would really like to put up > directions for how to do this, but have hit a wall on Mepis 11 with kde 4. > Respectfully, and thank you, > Sheila > > -- > Let Freedom Ring! > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd _______________________________________________ Barry-devel mailing list Barry-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/barry-devel
