Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3397 mails)

["C. Richard Matson" <goldfarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday April 23 2005 1:59 pm, Fred A. Miller wrote:
> On Sat April 23 2005 2:59 pm, Randall R Schulz wrote:

Fred, this was on the [kdepim-users list] Rich

If you do not own a Palm OS device, or don't use kpilot, or don't use 
kaddressbook, or do but like surprises, you can ignore this message and carry 
on with your day....

If, however, you do, please read on.  I need your help.  =:)

I've just committed code that hopefully fixes 2 really annoying buglets 
(103335 and 56364) to kpilot, HEAD branch.  These darling buglets were 
causing all entries in a given contact other than the primary e-mail address 
or phone number per type to be lost when syncing.  In other words, if you had 
2 e-mail addresses or mobile phone numbers in kabc, when it was synced with 
kpilot, we threw one of each away, which was not very nice.

The reason I'm asking for your help, oh dear user of kaddressbook and kpilot, 
is that I'd like your help in making sure that these bugs are indeed squashed 
dead, and that I've not caused any interesting, undesirable "features" as a 
result.

The only caveat to this whole deal is this...  Before my changes, kpilot only 
synced the first of each type of phone number or e-mail address between 
kaddressbook and the Pilot.  It now syncs as many of each type of thing that 
you put into either side, up to 5.  =:/  The problem is that the Pilot can 
only store 5 "phone numbers"--and "phone numbers" here also means "e-mail 
addresses".  So if you have a contact with 3 e-mail addresses, and a home 
phone and a work phone, then all will be fine and dandy when you sync between 
your Pilot and kaddressbook (3+1+1==5).  However, if you have a contact in 
kaddressbook that you've stored 3 e-mail addresses, 2 home phone numbers, 2 
mobile phone numbers, 4 fax numbers, etc., and then sync that contact with 
your Pilot, you will find that your e-mail addresses will be given precedence 
and will make it, but only 2 of your other 7 phone numbers will survive the 
sync.  

I believe that this is to be expected, and don't expect anyone to balk at it, 
but I wanted to make sure it was said clearly so there are no surprises.

So if you use kpilot and kaddressbook, please update from CVS HEAD, compile, 
install, etc., and test this when you get a chance and please let me know if 
you find anything awry.

Thanks!!  =:)

-- 
Rich Matson
Reno, Nv. USA