On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 07:49 +0200, Werner Flamme wrote:
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Am 16.08.2011 23:21, schrieb Frans de Boer:
On 08/16/2011 11:00 AM, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
On Thursday, August 11, 2011 09:15:33 Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
If you sync your phone with Google, there are lots of ways to sync from openSUSE with Google. E.g. you can use the akonadi-google to sync contacts (from KDE Playground repository) with KDE. I don't know what works with evolution.
For mail syncing, just use an IMAP server and access it from every system. IMAP sync for you.
There's nothing special openSUSE here, it's more a Linux general question,
Andreas
Bah, using Google? parties disrespecting European privacy are to me off-limit. So, there must be another way to handle agenda syncs etc. Anything but Google.
Frans.
We're talking about an operating systems that is from Google, right? And you don't want to share the content of your addressbook with Google then? Funny.
I do not use an Android phone because I don't like Google's way of collecting data, but I'd never refuse to sync my data with them if I had an Android phone - they may alread have it ;-) "Accidentally forgot to remove this portion of code" or so is something I always suspect.
When I set up my phone, I entered my google account info. As one would like, all contacts and calendar info was immediately in my phone. I am not politically against such a thing. I just prefer to have this information in more than one system. In this case, I consider the phone and google.com to be the same system. My plan is still to have this in evolution, since that is the e-mail system I use at work and at home. I have all my google mail automatically forwarded to an internal IMAP server. But contacts and calendars remain iffy. I have used the google calendar stuff in evolution. Works one release, then not the next. Contacts are even more ephemeral. So it seems as if google.com will be the clearing house for this type of info. But there is more than thins on the phone. There is also music. I am one of those weirdos who still buy CDs and somehow come across the odd stray MP3. When I had an old iPod, I happily used gtkpod to sync music. When I moved to a newer iPod, that stopped working (and still does not work). So I moved the music to my Mac and sync with iTunes. Which really does a great job. Android seems to be less organized with how it treats media. I can use something called iSyncr on the Mac to sync music with the Android phone. But it really is no better than gtkpod was. So I have been looking for Linux software to handle music between a Linux and an Android device. It is really a matter of 'just' maintaining a directory on the phone, as it seems most music apps simple scan for files. There is no complex database as there is in iTunes. So, my original question was to see what might be in openSUSE that I had not considered. Seems there is nothing. I disagree that there is no need. Android devices are more than phones + email. If I add a note on my iPod, when I sync with the Mac via iTunes, the note shows up in my e-mail on the mac. Little details. But God is in the details.
And, since the OS is from Google: why "must" there be another way to sync?
As I wrote, there is more to sync than email/contacts/calendars. If that were all, Google would do. But that is not all there is. Yours sincerely, Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 roger.oberholtzer@ramboll.se ________________________________________ Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden www.rambollrst.se -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org