[KLUG Members] Re: Zaurus - Now who's oversight was this? -- no sir, your logic is dead wrong ...

[Bryan J. Smith]

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On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 07:53, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> Well, there is Evolution, GNOME Card, ical (the X program not the ical
> protocol), etc...  It is a inefficient, stupid, and short sighted arrange=
ment.
> With Win32 you just sync with Outlook or at least something that mimics i=
t -
> clean, straight forward.

Huh???  No sir I totally _disagree_.  Your logic is _dead_wrong_ and
I'll tell you why.

Linux itself has _unified_ Palm conduit interfaces c/o the Pilot
program.  And using them, Gnome then has an _unified_ set of application
conduit interfaces for _all_ Gnome applications.  Evolution uses the
_same_ ones that Evolution, Gnome Calendar and others use -- it's up to
you which one you want to use, enable/disable, etc...

Very, very, very sweet, if you have a Palm device (any Palm device).

[ In fact, current Zaurus efforts "piggy-back" on those most excellent
Palm conduits ]

Windows has _no_equivalent_ unified interface.  Microsoft has its own
Outlook conduits and it does _not_ share them with 3rd party
applications.  It's either Outlook or nothing.

Which, in my book, makes Gnome's interfaces an _example_ for others to
go on.

Put simply, Sharp has only themselves to blame for not creating the
conduits.  For 1/5th the effort it took them to do it for Outlook, they
should have also created them for Linux.  But instead they left it as an
exercise for the Linux community.  As such the device's poor support has
resulted.

> If Linux sported a simple light weight icap/ical server than the Zaurus c=
ould
> sync to that, evolution could use it as a backend, etc....  If someone ca=
me up
> with something that worked (and a skeleton icap server exists under GPL) =
the
> adoption rate would be like a forest fire.

Your point there has _nothing_ to do with PDAs.  I agree with your
point, but it is not applicable in this situation.

BTW, iCal is really a client-side sharing mechanism (even though it is
centrally stored).  That is, it's half-@$$es.  Outlook uses incompatible
proprietary mechanisms to achieve the same results.


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