How do you keep contacts in Fedora/KDE?

[Timothy Murphy]

As a matter of interest, how do those of you running Fedora/KDE
keep your contacts?
I have a rather messy combination of Google contacts, 
KAddressBook and LDAP,
but would like to organise something simpler.
I suspect the simplest solution might be to go over entirely
to Google contacts, as I want to keep my contacts in sync
with my Android phone.

But what do people running Fedora/KDE usually do?


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[Craig White]

On Mon, 2013-04-01 at 14:59 +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>  As a matter of interest, how do those of you running Fedora/KDE
>  keep your contacts?
>  I have a rather messy combination of Google contacts, 
>  KAddressBook and LDAP,
>  but would like to organise something simpler.
>  I suspect the simplest solution might be to go over entirely
>  to Google contacts, as I want to keep my contacts in sync
>  with my Android phone.
>  
>  But what do people running Fedora/KDE usually do? 
----
I don't want to maintain multiple lists of the same contacts so I too
have been maintaining them in Google even though I had them all in LDAP.
Obviously I want the abstraction so that I can access from all software
on all machines/devices.

LDAP has the added bonus of shared contacts if there is more than one
user that needs access but of course Google Apps for Businesses solves
that issue but now for a cost.

Craig



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On 04/01/2013 09:05 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>  On Mon, 2013-04-01 at 14:59 +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > As a matter of interest, how do those of you running Fedora/KDE
> > keep your contacts?
> > I have a rather messy combination of Google contacts, 
> > KAddressBook and LDAP,
> > but would like to organise something simpler.
> > I suspect the simplest solution might be to go over entirely
> > to Google contacts, as I want to keep my contacts in sync
> > with my Android phone.
> >
> > But what do people running Fedora/KDE usually do?
>  
>  Speaking only for myself, I just keep everything in Google Contacts (I
>  also have an Android phone).
>  
>  Cue flame-war about evil intentions of Google, etc. ...
>  
>  poc
>   
I, too, keep all my contacts in Google Contacts. They sync to
Thunderbird via the Google Contacts extension, sync to my iPhone, iPad,
and Mac.

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[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2013-04-01 at 14:59 +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>  As a matter of interest, how do those of you running Fedora/KDE
>  keep your contacts?
>  I have a rather messy combination of Google contacts, 
>  KAddressBook and LDAP,
>  but would like to organise something simpler.
>  I suspect the simplest solution might be to go over entirely
>  to Google contacts, as I want to keep my contacts in sync
>  with my Android phone.
>  
>  But what do people running Fedora/KDE usually do? 
Speaking only for myself, I just keep everything in Google Contacts (I
also have an Android phone).

Cue flame-war about evil intentions of Google, etc. ...

poc

[Junk]

On 2 Apr 2013, at 19:47, Max Pyziur <pyz(a)brama.com&gt; wrote:

>  On Mon, 1 Apr 2013, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>  
> > On Mon, 2013-04-01 at 14:59 +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> >> As a matter of interest, how do those of you running Fedora/KDE
> >> keep your contacts?
> >> I have a rather messy combination of Google contacts,
> >> KAddressBook and LDAP,
> >> but would like to organise something simpler.
> >> I suspect the simplest solution might be to go over entirely
> >> to Google contacts, as I want to keep my contacts in sync
> >> with my Android phone.
> >> 
> >> But what do people running Fedora/KDE usually do?
> > 
> > Speaking only for myself, I just keep everything in Google Contacts (I
> > also have an Android phone).
> > 
> > Cue flame-war about evil intentions of Google, etc. ...
>  
>  While this is a KDE-oriented question my experience may be useful to this discussion; my
> method is to use one Desktop as having all PIM data: contacts, calendar, memos, todos. For
> this I use Evolution.
>  
>  In order to sync it with my Android phone, I use different cloud services, with the
> exception of Google.
>  
>  The services that I have tried are: Funambol(actually onemediahub.com), MemoToo, and
> Everdroid. Each has its peculiarities and advantages; Memotoo is the one that I prefer
> currently. Everdroid has an advantage of syncing text messages (easier to review them in
> bulk on a webpage than on a phone).
>  
>  In order to sync from the Desktop to the cloud I use syncevolution's gui.
>  
>  On the Android phone, there are Apps tied to the particular services. On the phone,
> I've deleted the contents of the local phonebook, and just use the Memotoo one.
> Memotoo has the capability to delete its current contents and overwrite it with the
> contents of the server. That way any duplication is avoided.
>  
>  Memotoo charges a fee (~$1.50/month, I think); more nuisance than anything else.
>  
>  The syncevolution email list is very helpful in sorting out issues.
>  
> > poc
>  
>  fyi & hth,
>  
>  Max Pyziur
>  pyz(a)brama.com
>  --  
I have a small home server that runs the groupware system SOGo http://sogo.nu it makes
more sense for me as it runs email as well. It works with CardDAV / CalDAV and funambol
and can be made to work with outlook. It's essentially an alternative to zafera. 

Junk.

[Max Pyziur]

On Mon, 1 Apr 2013, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

>  On Mon, 2013-04-01 at 14:59 +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > As a matter of interest, how do those of you running Fedora/KDE
> > keep your contacts?
> > I have a rather messy combination of Google contacts,
> > KAddressBook and LDAP,
> > but would like to organise something simpler.
> > I suspect the simplest solution might be to go over entirely
> > to Google contacts, as I want to keep my contacts in sync
> > with my Android phone.
> >
> > But what do people running Fedora/KDE usually do?
>
>  Speaking only for myself, I just keep everything in Google Contacts (I
>  also have an Android phone).
>
>  Cue flame-war about evil intentions of Google, etc. ... 
While this is a KDE-oriented question my experience may be useful to this 
discussion; my method is to use one Desktop as 
having all PIM data: contacts, calendar, memos, todos. For this I use 
Evolution.

In order to sync it with my Android phone, I use different cloud services, 
with the exception of Google.

The services that I have tried are: Funambol(actually onemediahub.com), 
MemoToo, and Everdroid. Each has its peculiarities and advantages; Memotoo 
is the one that I prefer currently. Everdroid has an advantage of syncing 
text messages (easier to review them in bulk on a webpage than on a 
phone).

In order to sync from the Desktop to the cloud I use syncevolution's gui.

On the Android phone, there are Apps tied to the particular services. On 
the phone, I've deleted the contents of the local phonebook, and just use 
the Memotoo one. Memotoo has the capability to delete its current contents 
and overwrite it with the contents of the server. That way any duplication 
is avoided.

Memotoo charges a fee (~$1.50/month, I think); more nuisance than anything 
else.

The syncevolution email list is very helpful in sorting out issues.

>  poc
>
>  
fyi & hth,

Max Pyziur
pyz(a)brama.com

[Anthony Joseph Messina]

On Monday, April 01, 2013 02:59:43 PM Timothy Murphy wrote:
>  As a matter of interest, how do those of you running Fedora/KDE
>  keep your contacts? 
I keep my contacts in 389 DS (LDAP), with EGroupware as a frontend.  I access 
them in KDE via Akonadi's "DAV Groupware Resource" which has an option for 
EGroupware.

This way, I can get them via LDAP, GroupDAV, and sync with Android using 
CardDAV-sync (http://www.dmfs.org/carddav/), which is available in the Play 
Store.

>  But what do people running Fedora/KDE usually do? 
I have the feeling of late that I am often doing things that "people running 
Fedora/KDE" aren't usually doing, so I'm disqualifying myself from commenting

on this. ;)

-A

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