More details.. This is the flip side of the jumbo contact test: fill all fields on the n900 at least once (for IM, email and telephone, at least 4 times)
Sync to desktop Results: evolution preserves all - ui shows 4 emails, 4 contacts, and all phone numbers I see inconsistent behavior in IM sync AIM, Gadu-Gadu --------------- from evolution to n900 no change to the vcf from n900 to evolution a "TYPE=HOME" is removed (VCF) Jabber/GoogleTalk ------------------ N900 to evolution - Googletalk is turned into a jabber contact see my previous note for the inverse behavior) Facebook ------- evolution does not support the field and as it moves from n900 to evolution it looks like the field is dropped :-( All of this is to say there is some mapping going on, and it may be fine as long as no significant info is lost...it does seem a bit inconsistent to me - but there are probably reasons... On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 17:00 -0400, Jeff wrote: > Additional details > > Some of the problem may be due to the emulator not supporting > Jabber or Skype as a contact type (even after I installed the Pidgin > protocols plugin to add support for these to the N900 conversations. > Still I would expect the VCF not to be changed. The contact might not > display which is fine. > > Just tested the other IM protocols available for a contact in evolution: > Gadu-Gadu, MSN, Icq, Groupwise. > Result: All display fine after sync to N900 except NO Groupwise > (probably due to lack of installed support for Groupwise) > Also tested VCF compare using synccompare > Result: MSN and GaduGadu remove "TYPE=HOME" > > > On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 16:41 -0400, Jeff wrote: > > [I'm doing all testing in a virtual machine including an n900 emulator] > > > > In the course of my testing, I decided to create a jumbo contact and > > fill all it's fields (in evolution), then sync to the N900. > > > > Exporting and comparing the contact on each side, then running > > synccompare reveals the following changes. > > > > 1) IM contact fields used in test: AIM, Jabber, Yahoo, SKYPE > > > > Observed: N900 side after sync shows that the > > portion of the VCF for the IM field that says "TYPE=HOME" > > has been removed from Skype and Jabber but NOT AIM or Yahoo > > > > N900 does NOT display these contact fields > > > > Expected: No change in VCF > > N900 SHOULD display skype and jabber contact detail > > > > 2) Address field (ADR in the VCF) for Home address, work address and > > Other addresses appear to have had an extra space inserted after the > > semicolon for the zip field (in th VCF) causing an extra space > > in the country field at it's start > > > > > > Seems to me the 1st issue could cause problems syncing back to N900 IF > > Evolution cared about TYPE for IM fields. Right now it does not seem to > > care. > > > > > > Both seem like issues... please let me know your thoughts on these... > > > > --Jeff _______________________________________________ SyncEvolution mailing list [email protected] http://lists.syncevolution.org/listinfo/syncevolution
