Development of the Barry interface to BlackBerry devices

Chris Frey | 4 Jun 2008 22:57

Re: Category Support for Contact Synchronization

On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 10:00:16AM -0500, William Bennett wrote:
> First, let me say thanks for the great effort with the Barry project. (I 
> suppose I should also thank the OpenSync folks, too!) I have my BB 
> successfully communicating and synchronizing with Linux/KDE-PIM. All of the 
> following work wonderfully:
>  - microSD card mounting
>  - USB mass-storage mode file viewing and transferring
>  - media management via Amarok
>  - USB charging
>  - synchronization of KDE-PIM calendar events

Thanks for the success report!

> The only issue I have regards synchronization of KDE-PIM contacts. The 
> synchronization is setup properly, and runs just fine. The issue is that I 
> have over 2,000 contacts in KDE-PIM, and don't want to synchronize all of 
> them to my BB.
> 
> Does Barry currently (or are there plans for Barry in the future to) support 
> contact categories? I would love to be able to assign all of my 
> to-be-synchronized KDE-PIM contacts a "BlackBerry" category, and then have 
> Barry only sync such-categorized contacts.

The category support currently in the plugin is more like tagging.
The categories should appear in the Blackberry, and match what is
in your desktop software.

I looked at the opensync source code, and while there is a framework for
filters, there doesn't appear to be any implementation.  Filters appears
to be what you want, so you can filter out what records to sync.  Unfortunately

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William Bennett | 7 Jun 2008 15:42

Re: Category Support for Contact Synchronization

On Wednesday 04 June 2008 3:57:42 pm Chris Frey wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 10:00:16AM -0500, William Bennett wrote:
> > First, let me say thanks for the great effort with the Barry project. (I
> > suppose I should also thank the OpenSync folks, too!) I have my BB
> > successfully communicating and synchronizing with Linux/KDE-PIM. All of
> > the following work wonderfully:
> >  - microSD card mounting
> >  - USB mass-storage mode file viewing and transferring
> >  - media management via Amarok
> >  - USB charging
> >  - synchronization of KDE-PIM calendar events
>
> Thanks for the success report!
>

I think I forgot to mention, I did try to run a sync of my Contacts. KDE-PIM 
pulled all of my BlackBerry contacts in, but the sync failed after that. I 
have no idea why. Interestingly, KDE-PIM did recognize the categories of the 
few BB contacts to which I had assigned categories - but did not recognize 
equivalent contacts in KDE-PIM (I ended up with duplicates).

Is it worthwhile at this point to keep playing around with contact 
synchronizing, or should I wait until category-filter support is implemented?

> > The only issue I have regards synchronization of KDE-PIM contacts. The
> > synchronization is setup properly, and runs just fine. The issue is that
> > I have over 2,000 contacts in KDE-PIM, and don't want to synchronize all
> > of them to my BB.
> >
> > Does Barry currently (or are there plans for Barry in the future to)

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