Date: 08 Dec 2002 20:59:13 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: George Hartzell <hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gnome2, gnome-pilot, and capplets (and evolution) Message-ID: <1039399153.44177.36.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <15859.61306.112323.806550@rosebud.alerce.com>
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On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 20:18, George Hartzell wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a system running 4.7p2, with the XFree86-6, gnome2,
> gnome2-fifth-toe, and evolution [meta]ports installed (built as
> packages on a server, then pkg_add'ed to the workstation.
>
> I've made a symbolic link from /dev/ttyd0 to /dev/pilot.
>
> I can use (e.g.) pilot-address and it happily talk to the pilot.
>
> I configured gpilotd the hard way, I stumbled on
>
> /usr/X11R6/bin/gpilotd-control-applet --druid
>
> which walked me through some choices, though it failed to actually
> talk to the pilot. However, once it finished, I could start gpilotd
> by hand and it will talk to pilot when I push the hotsync button.
>
> But, gpilotd does not see any conduits configured (there are a bunch
> in /usr/X11R5/share/gnome/gnome-pilot/conduits, include some from
> evolution), and I can't seem to get either gpilot-applet or
> gpilotd-control-applet to run, they both bitch about:
>
> "** WARNING **: Unable reach the control-center." [sic]
> "Exiting..."
>
> If i start Evolution on the command line and ask it to configure
> conduits, I get the same error message ("strings `which evolution` |
> grep pilot" suggests that it's just calling gpilotd-control-applet.
>
> It also seems that there is supposed to be some pilot stuff somewhere
> in the control-center, but I can't seem to find it.
>
> I don't really understand what gnome's right, left, and gripping hands
> are doing as the various parts all talk to each other, but I kind of
> suspect that maybe?:
>
> a) the gnome pilot port installed the doo-hickeys for the control
> panel in the place that gnome 1 expects them?
>
> b) there's something incomptible between gnome pilot and gnome 2?
>
> c) I just need to perform some magic that I've missed somewhere?
>
> I tried whipping up a .gnome/gnome-pilot.d/conduits0 file based on
> some comments on a web page about an alpha version of GnoCal, but I
> clearly don't know what I'm doing.
>
> I'd love to have it all work as intended, but I'd be ok with just
> being able to sync the palm calendar with the evolution calendar.
>
> Anyone have any help?
Install sysutils/gnomecontrolcenter, and you should be set. Don't
worry, this port doesn't actually interfere with GNOME 2.
Joe
>
> g.
>
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