Comments on: Windows Mobile synchronization: video!

By: adamw

adamw — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:34:28 +0000

I have one too (well, my boyfriend does) and it already works. The only thing I’m working on is polish.

If you want to try it, do this:

install task-blackberry-kde
run kitchensync
create a new sync group, add the blackberry and kdepim members
configure the blackberry member. it’ll show you a raw config file, with some helpful comments. following the comments, enter a line like this:

Device 9111111 1 1

where ‘9111111′ is your Blackberry’s PIN (there’s various ways to find this out, if you don’t know any of them, ask me). 1 1 means “sync contacts and calendar”.

That should be all you need to do, it’ll then sync with KDE. If you’re on GNOME, install task-blackberry-gnome and follow pretty much the same steps with Multisync and the Evolution opensync plugin instead (or you can still use KitchenSync on GNOME, that’s what I do as it’s a better app than Multisync).

By: austin

austin — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:08:05 +0000

I have a Blackberry, the ubiquitous tool for Canadian lawyers. Let me know exactly what you need me to do to get sync working, and I’ll do it.

By: adamw

adamw — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:10:51 +0000

thanks for the kind offer, and I may actually end up taking you up on it, but for now some guys within MDV are helping me out, so I’ll exhaust their patience first =)

KitchenSync has special code for handling each opensync plugin individually and providing a nice GUI interface to configure it. Unfortunately, it doesn’t have such a module for the Blackberry plugin, so it falls back to simply making you edit the raw config file, which isn’t very user-friendly. So I’m trying to write the code for KitchenSync to handle it the way it does the other plugins, but since I know precisely no C++, it’s not happening very fast

By: MrFurious

MrFurious — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:55:17 +0000

Hi Adam, nice work, great video, thanks!
I’m not a Linux (or KDE) expert – just the regular Mandriva user – but i’m fairly proficient with C++ and Qt, so if you run into problems in that area, you can mail me, i’ll try to help.