[maemo-users] Postal address in Contacts?

[From: Patrick Ohly]

On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 13:20 -0600, Mark wrote:
[EDS integration for GPE]
> From what I'm learning about the Evolution Data Server, it *could* be
> a good thing, but only if you don't forget to add significant import &
> export (and possibly external sync) functionality.

SyncEvolution already does that for EDS. It supports incremental syncs
(just send modified items), so you can edit one contact on the tablet,
another contact on the desktop, sync, and not loose one of these
modifications. Your manual import/export is way more cumbersome than
that. If it suits you, by all means, continue using it, but I expect
more from my devices.

> The fundamental issue is that it's still up to the app developers to
> deal with import, export & sync. The EDS doesn't do any of that.

Instead of implementing import/export or even sync for each app, it
makes a lot more sense to implement it once for a common back end.

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