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gnome-pilot is a package of utilities for handheld computers such as the PalmPilot. It is a part of the GNOME project

Mailing list: http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-pilot-list

Development

Current latest released tarballs are in the 2.0.* series; these are of the Subversion main branch. All work porting to HAL, DBus, and pilot-link 0.12 is being done in the main branch.

The bonobo-daemon-branch is a much cleaned up branch from which the UI is simpler, the architecture is cleaner, and it should be easier to develop plugins, etc. This branch has dormant since about 2004. It is not clear which branch is likely to become the 2.1.* series of development releases which will become the 2.2.* series of stable releases.

Downloads

Subversion

To check out the development version of gnome-pilot, you should use:

• svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/gnome-pilot/trunk gnome-pilot

• svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/gnome-pilot-conduits/trunk gnome-pilot-conduits

Tarballs

• Latest release:

  • gnome-pilot-2.0.17.tar.bz2

  • gnome-pilot-conduits-2.0.17.tar.bz2

Known Issues with current release (2.0.17)

• Bluetooth sync works, but a bug in the pilot-link library means the gnome-pilot daemon will die after a sync. This has been fixed in source and should appear with pilot-link version 0.12.4. For people interested in patching, there is a patch available here

Work currently being done

• HAL support being added - partially done.

  • HAL will notify gpilotd (gnome-pilot daemon) when a PalmOS PDA attempts a HotSync operation.

  • Due to limitations with the latest version of HAL, the devices.xml is still in use. This hopefully will be fixed in the next release.
• Porting to the pilot-link 0.12 API is complete. pilot-link 0.11.x will continue to be supported.
• Conduits have been ported to new pilot-link 0.12 API.
• The configuration applet GUI has been given a bit of a makeover.
• Many bugs have been fixed since the 2.0.13 release of gnome-pilot.

Help Needed

• A new website? or just use this wiki for now? volunteers?

• Questions? If you've got questions, or ideas for more content here (FAQ, HOWTO, etc.), let us know by joining http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-pilot-list gnome-pilot-list]

Website

The former gnome-pilot website

The old gnome-pilot website was taken down in January of 2003, from the ChangeLog:

2003-01-10 Steve Fox
    * www.gnome.org/projects/gnome-pilot
    Per jpr, nuke gnome-pilot since it's way crusty

You can see the old content that was there here: http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnomeweb-wml/www.gnome.org/projects/gnome-pilot/index.html?rev=1.5&hideattic=0&view=markup