[Owncloud] Synchronising addressbooks with desktop - any non-KDE clients available?

Jan-Christoph Borchardt hey at jancborchardt.net
Fri Mar 8 12:51:13 UTC 2013


Gnome has native ownCloud integration by the way:
http://debarshiray.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/gnome-owncloud/


On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 12:27:06PM +0100, Thomas Keil wrote:
> > Evolution is natively able to sync via carddav (it is called webdav
> > there) using the full address of the addressbook
> > ( like
> >
> https://mydomain.com/owncloud/remote.php/carddav/addressbooks/username/contacts/
> > ). I currently use this method, and except for a somehow slow sync
> behavior
> > (two changes of the same contact in rapid succession lead to an error
> message
> > like 'contact changed on server, not syncing') I had no problems so far.
> >
> Evolution is rather 'heavy' for my liking.
>
> >
> > There is also an AddOn for Thunderbird (SOGo Connector in cooperation
> > with MoreFunctionsForAddressbook) that allows synchronisation with
> > owncloud addressbooks (using the same address as above, I think).
> > However this is limited by the capabilities of the Thunderbird
> > addressbook (not more than 2 Mail addresses per contact, and maybe other
> > limitations I did not yet encounter).
> >
> This is what I'm trying now.  I have put the above address into
> Thunderbird but I can't get it to synchronise yet.  If it does work it
> will be just about what I need.
>
> --
> Chris Green
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