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Graham Cobb | # 31 | 2008-01-19, 14:51 | Report

Originally Posted by mwiktowy View Post

Are there efforts to migrate GPE to the regular maemo repos?

Yes. It is already in extras-devel, which anyone who is developing software for the IT should add to their standard list of repositories. The extras-devel is a staging area which is particularly useful to test for any interaction problems (e.g. if someone else ships an updated version of a library an application depends on).

I intend to migrate GPE into extras, although I was hoping that we would have had some agreement on the process and criteria for migrating software from extras-devel to extras by now. I will have to just do it anyway, I guess.

Now that it seems that the main chinook-related bugs are fixed I will also add the GPE applications into the OS2008 downloads pages. These will point to my .install files, which I will maintain and will redirect to the extras repos once GPE is there.

Graham

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Graham Cobb | # 32 | 2008-01-23, 14:26 | Report

I have had a report of a problem installing GPE on OS2008 which seems to be a problem with the Claws repository. One of the dependencies for gpe-calendar is libgpg-error0 which is present in several repositories. It is in extras, in maemo-hackers and, supposedly, in the Claws repository. Claws claims to have the newest version (1.4-2ubuntu1), but the file is actually missing! So, the gpe-calendar installation fails.

This means that you cannot install gpe-calendar if you have the Claws email repository currently enabled. The workround is to disable the claws repository in the application manager catalogue.

If anyone has a Claws bugzilla account and could report the problem I would be grateful. As there is a version in extras it would be good if the Claws people just used that version and did not try to provide their own version.

Graham

timsamoff | # 33 | 2008-01-23, 14:46 | Report

@Graham: Done.

http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-...ug.cgi?id=1487

Tim

Update: This is fixed now, thanks to the ever-helpful Colin Leroy.

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dubwise | # 34 | 2008-01-23, 19:48 | Report

Finally got my Palm data in.
Installed Palm desktop on my mac (I normally sync w/ my PC) and synced.
ISync kicked in and brought it into iCal.
GPE rejected that ical without comment.
I eventually gave up and uninstalled it.
Installed dual boot and KDE on my N810.
Korganizer mported the ical file fom the mac without complaint.
Copied KOrganizer's ical file to the SD card.
Reinstalled GPE.
Imported the Korganizer ical.

It's pretty slow once you get a lot of events in there,
but at least it works well enough so I can evaluate it.

Are there any other config entries available, files to edit or whatever?
I'd like to change the alarm sound, for instance.

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Graham Cobb | # 35 | 2008-01-24, 13:14 | Report

Originally Posted by dubwise View Post

Finally got my Palm data in.

In the future I would like to have Opensync available on the Internet tablet to be able to sync GPE with other devices (Palms, phones, etc.) directly.

Originally Posted by dubwise View Post

ISync kicked in and brought it into iCal.
GPE rejected that ical without comment.

Any chance you could send me the file? I would like to understand why it didn't generate a meaningful error message.

Originally Posted by dubwise View Post

Are there any other config entries available, files to edit or whatever?
I'd like to change the alarm sound, for instance.

'Fraid not. This is a common request (and a feature I would like!) but no one is currently working on it as far as I know.

Graham

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tso | # 36 | 2008-01-24, 13:32 | Report

looking forward to the day when opensync is working on the tablet.

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FGol | # 37 | 2008-01-24, 15:51 | Report

Originally Posted by FGol View Post

Are there ways in GPE to:
- Bulk delete old appointments? I tried syncing to a Google calendar but that has no easy way to bulk delete either. So I exporting the Google cal, deleted the old stuff and rebuilt it with only current events. When I synced with erming all of the old stuff on GPE got promptly re-added to Google.

- Can the calendar month view be changed to start on Sunday rather than Monday?

- Can the day view be made to extend beyond 6PM without adding a 7PM appointment?

- Can it be configured to work in 15 minute increments? I tap on 5PM to create an appointment and it assumes a 5:30 to 6:30 appointment. Sometimes it assumes a time of 5:15-6:15. There's a lot of tapping to adjust it to the times I really want. I never usually start things at HH:08 so 15 minute chunks would be desirable.

Maybe I should RTM,
Frank

Hi Graham,

Thank you for your work with GPE. Writing freeware is often a chore!

I had posted the above much earlier in the thread and have since concluded than the items in the above are not part of GPE and are wish-list items. Should I put them on the wish list or is this thread an okay place to muse about new features?

Thank you again,
Frank

Graham Cobb | # 38 | 2008-01-24, 19:33 | Report

Originally Posted by

looking forward to the day when opensync is working on the tablet.

I have opensync, msynctool and the GPE and file plug-ins built and packages created but I haven't started testing them yet (they install and run but I need to see if they actually sync!). Once I get file and GPE working reasonably well I will have a go at the SyncML plugin, which is both much more complex and is currently undergoing active development.

But your comment has prompted me to try to make some more progress tonight. If people are interested I can create another topic to track progress on Opensync. And if anyone is interested in helping out, for example by testing sync with different devices/systems, let me know.

The big problem is going to be that there is no good GUI. I am not a GUI guy and we could really do with someone willing to work on creating a GUI for local syncing on the tablet. I believe there are python bindings available for opensync so it may be easiest to create in python (I'm not a python guy either!).

Originally Posted by

I had posted the above much earlier in the thread and have since concluded than the items in the above are not part of GPE and are wish-list items. Should I put them on the wish list or is this thread an okay place to muse about new features?

This is a good place to muse but I would recommend entering them (as enhancements) into the GPE bugzilla (http://bugs.linuxtogo.org/). Unfortunately, the person who was most recently working on gpe-calendar has left the project and no one is actively developing it at the moment (two or three of us hacked it around to do the chinook port but none of us is working on new features). Putting them in the bugzilla at least means they will be there when someone starts working on it again.

In the meantime, if anyone thinks they might like to have a go at improving it, feel free to work on it and submit patches! All help is welcome!!

Graham

dubwise | # 39 | 2008-01-25, 15:11 | Report

I'm sorry to hear they're not working on GPE calendar.
It's got a fair ways to go, at least to meet my needs.

I was disappointed to discover last night that disabling a calendar doesn't speed it up.
I need access to all my past events, but KDE gets really slow with big files.
I was hoping to break it into several calendars, and turn them on as needed.
I created a new calendar, with one event in it, and turned off the main one.
Didn't help the performance. Any ideas?

I can send you my unimportable .ics. It's 3700 events, 270k zipped.
It has a bunch of gobbledygook in it that Pimlico's Datebook5 put in the memo fields
to specify icons and links without screwing up the native Palm database.
I also have it with that stuff edited out.
KDE PIM likes it fine either way.

If you want someone to test sync solutions, I have Tungsten C and Tungsten T Palms.
No Linux desktops, though, just XP and OSX.

2beers | # 40 | 2008-03-04, 16:49 | Report

Hi!

Thanks for your hard work Graham!
I recently bought the N810 as it seemed to be a good replacement for my Archos PMA (pretty much the same functions - just older/worse grafics & inbuildt HDD (makes the dev. pretty heavy - on the other hand 30gb space..)).
Anyway - GPE seems to be a quite powerful PIM aplication. I'd love to use it as my primerily calendar. Unfortunatley i cant use the calender, as long as the category-colors aren't supported (in monthly view).

As this bug seems to exist for more than a year now, i wonder if it will be fixed anytime soon? I don't assume you have any idea, what's wrong with the coding/wich CSS (if they are used?) needs to be checked?
Maybe you or one of your mates is able to tell me where to find the file that defines the colors?
If not - please tell me wich file you recently edited to fix the other category bug.

OH - and one more thing... how/where can i find the (any) files to edit on my N810? I must say the maemo os is nice - yet it does confuse me in there structure. I didn't see any config files/dir's when connectig the N810 to my PC yet. Either they are in some subdir i didn't find yet - or hidden somehow. I suppose there are a lot of hidden files - as the "root" directory is more or less empty when connected to my machine (ubuntu 7.10).

Have a nice day!
2beers

Last edited by 2beers; 2008-03-04 at 20:44.