[kdepim-users] What is the status of KPilot?

George Bourozikas george at bourozikas.net
Tue Sep 15 14:46:41 BST 2009


Answering myself - see below:

On Monday 14 September 2009 03:59:01 pm George Bourozikas wrote:
> I had used KPilot for a few years up until the introduction of KDE 4 and
> Akonadi.  At that point it stopped working for me.  I reverted to 3.5.9
> which worked for a while but then it, too, stopped working for me.
> (It's been a few months so I don't remember the details.)
> 
> For the last three or four months I have been using Evolution which is
> not ideal but at least it syncs my Treo.
> 
> Today I tried again, running KPilot in all sorts of configurations,
> including in a clean $HOME with brand new Akonadi resources, but
> unsuccessfully: the addressbook gets populated sometimes but calendar
> sync is erratic.  I also noticed that the Akonadi server does not start
> reliably.
> 
> So I would like to ask:
> 
>   -- Are other people using KPilot successfully with KDE 4?
> 
>   -- Is there a way to disable Akonadi in KDE 4 (as this seems to be
>      the root cause of the problem)?
> 
> My configuration:
> 
>   -- Kubuntu Jaunty, KDE 4.3.1
> 
>   -- KPilot 4.3.1
> 
> Thanks in advance for any insights and help in troubleshooting this.
> 
> --george

I noticed this morning that KPilot was included in my system's updates so I 
gave it a try  - lo and behold, it worked!  So I am back to normal for the 
time being.

Thanks to the developers for the fix.

--george
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