[Gpe-list] GPE Contacts for Maemo - not shared?

[Graham Cobb]

On Wednesday 06 February 2008 14:25:30 Sean Mitchell wrote:
> Ryan Pavlik wrote:
> >> I recently installed a few GPE applications, including the contacts
> >> app. Was surprised to find that when I add a contact in the GPE app,
> >> it doesn't appear in the Maemo contacts app. Is GPE not using the
> >> addressbook store functionality provided by Maemo?
> >
> > Correct, it uses its own database store, IIRC an internal sqlite
> > database.  You might be able to put together some kind of sync using
> > OpenSync, since Maemo contacts uses EDS ("evolution" essentially), if
> > you were sufficiently motivated.
>
> I see. Is there any plan to have the Maemo port use Evolution Data
> Services? I see from some comments on the Pimlico project that Nokia
> doesn't provide the full EDS API in their libebook, so perhaps this
> isn't feasible.

No plans.  I agree it would be nice to have.  It would be easy to do if it is 
possible to implement the libcontactsdb API on top of EDS.  But it probably 
isn't.

My thought is that the sync route is the way to go.  Opensync does run on the 
tablet, although I am currently concentrating on testing using it to 
synchronise GPE with mobile phones using syncml over bluetooth.

Graham