Re: ANNOUNCE: balsa-2.2.4 released

[Pawel Salek <pawsa theochem kth se>]

On 08/28/2004 06:16:12 PM, Andrew Lau wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 01:19:28PM +0000, Pawel Salek wrote:
> > Balsa team would like to officially announce balsa-2.2.4 release
> > available at http://balsa.gnome.org/
> > ...
> > Major highlights of this balsa release are:
> >
> > - GPE address book support -
> >  http://gpe.handhelds.org/projects/GPE-address.shtml
>
> Hi guys,
>
> I'm a bit confused about that last item. Having read the URL, I was
> under the impression that Balsa now supported the transfer of  
> contacts
> between itself and those on a GPE-running Palmtop device.
>
> But then I noticed the following in ./configure --help:
>
>   --enable-touch-ui       Enable Touchscreen UI mode (default=no)
>   --with-sqlite=DIR       Use SQLite for GPE address books
> (default=no)
>
> So is this feature about actually running Balsa on a GPE device and
> not communicating with one?
Yes - this is about sharing the address book data with GPE-contacts  
program. This means you have to run balsa on the same program as gpe- 
contacts. You can run both balsa and gpe-contacts on a GPE device or  
balsa + gpe-contacts on a PC. Or just manally copy the address book  
file (this is what I did). but yes, ability to sync in some way address  
book data between a PC and a portable device would be nice. I do not  
know whether such a program exists.
Pawel