x-chat systray plugin: I frequently miss when someone is trying to get my attention on IRC. This plugin notifies me when a highlighted term (such as my nickname) appears on a channel. It’s not perfect and really it’s silly to have an xchat icon constantly on my panel. Ideally this sort of thing would be handled by some common message notification system.
Firefox bookmarks sync plugin: I use Firefox on a few different machines. This keeps my bookmarks in sync. Pretty nice if you don’t have a more general syncing solution. I’m still looking for a good way to sync my Evolution calendar and contacts between machines. Mail isn’t a problem thanks to imap. What do the rest of you use? I’m probably overlooking something obvious.
Tags: GNOME
December 13th, 2004 at 2:45 pm
One way to keep a calendar and contacts in sync is to use a Palm device!
December 13th, 2004 at 2:46 pm
Look at multisync’s evolution 2 module in their CVS.
I’ve used their older version with Evolution 1.4 and it worked great, it even offers SSL. I haven’t tried the new plugin for Evo2 but I’ve heard that it’s close to being fully functional.
December 13th, 2004 at 3:32 pm
Hi,
copying the .evolution folder will not work. While you will get all downloaded IMAP data, the addressbook, calendars, etc. will be missing. This happens as evolution also requires some entries in the .gconfd folder. There the addressbooks, etc. get registered. If you copy these entries, too, you will be able to see your copied addressbooks from the .evo folder.
Plus a minor bug. Before copying, at least run evolution one time as it will ignore your data, when there already is an .evolution folder you synced. It will run the first time wizard anyway and overwrite your .evo folder.
If you need more info on this topics, feel free to ask. I have been working with a synced setup since evo-1.5 and can provide some more hints if needed.
Regards,
Daniel
December 13th, 2004 at 3:33 pm
Forgot one thing: best way to sync evo right now is rsync. Simple bash script will do the trick.
Daniel
December 13th, 2004 at 4:41 pm
For the calendar you should look at the Evolution iCal support.
December 13th, 2004 at 4:57 pm
I agroo with jorge; I haven’t used the multisync evo plugins myself, but apparently you can set one up as a tcp/syncml server, and one as a tcp/syncml host, and keep it all sync’d that way.
Never personally tried it, but I’ve seen remarks that it’s been done before successfully somewhere…
December 14th, 2004 at 5:06 am
Well, I’ve advocated time and again that Gnome people look at Growl as an excellent example of a centralized, network-aware notification system - see my posts here and here, plus sample code here.
December 14th, 2004 at 11:12 am
I use “My Yahoo!” as my home page in Firefox and I store all of my bookmarks in their Bookmarks module. It has worked incredibly well for me for the last couple of years.
-Max
December 18th, 2004 at 11:04 pm
I just made a bug report for window-list-applet about notification: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161680