What front end (PIM?) to use with pilot-link?

Chris G cl at isbd.net
Mon May 5 14:58:26 UTC 2008


On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 07:18:04AM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 10:13 +0100, Chris G wrote:
> > I currently use J-pilot on my Fedora machine to link up with my Palm
> > PDA. It's OK but I would like the ability to have reminders of
> > upcoming appointements etc. pop up on my desktop.
> > 
> > Are there any PIMs or similar applications available in Fedora which
> > will run in the background under X and produce pop up reminders (or
> > similar)? 
> 
> J-pilot is for synching, as is gpilot. To get pop-up alarms etc. you

No Jpilot is a PIM, it tries to emulate Palm Desktop for windows.

> want Evolution (yum install evolution) or the KDE PIM tools --
> korganizer, kmail and so on (yum install kdepim).
> 
Evolution is too big and heavyweight for what I want really, I may
take a look (I think it's installed anyway). 

I just tried it, 99% E-Mail and 1% what I actually want.  :-(

-- 
Chris Green




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