(If this is not the right category, please move it for me)

Right- I have a Windows Mobile 6 phone and I'd like to sync the calendar, todo, and contacts with Korganiser, KTodo, and KAddresbook - all in Kontact. I run KDE 4.2.88 (4.3) on Gentoo Linux.

All the guides online are very outdated and all seem to give contradicting instructions, most only for KDE 3.5, and some tools which are now broken or only work with KDE 3.5. Here is what I have found out:

KPilot - only works with Palm, not Windows Mobile 6 - disregarded.

Synce - I feel this is my best shot, it seems to have no problem syncing "it says sync, it detects my contacts, todo and calendar stuff (via Synce-kpm) but I cannot figure out what it does to it once it says "sync finished". Does it save it to a file? What happens to it? Nothing appears in Kontact. There is apparently another application called libopensync-plugin-kdepim that I assume is meant to link synce with kontact, but it doesn't seem to have migrated to KDE4.

Kitchensync - only with KDE 3, and currently seems to be broken upstream in their KDE 4 version.

msynctool - aka multisync, seems to only be for GNOME, Evolution, and Orange (GNOME PIM stuff)

I've love to have any suggestions on what else to do. Has anybody else done this successfully?

Hello,

AFAIK, synCE only works with KDE 3.5.x. It does work with Gnome and Evolution. It is planned for KDE 4.x in the future IIRC.

--Keith

Syncing so far as been developed on top of the sync engine and plugins provided by the OpenSync project.

Unfortunately they decided to delay their release again and again, changing all kinds of APIs as they go.
They promised us a release last October, but since that never happend all of our work has been unreleasable as well.

We are not exploring other alternatives, e.g. getting support for SyncML without depending on OpenSync to get their act together.
Unfortunately this means that syncing with devices will be delayed even more, but at least we are now more in control of the delay

Cheers,
_

Nothing is changing in this respect and it really sucks, I think the desktop suite is not complete without syncing with pda. I could understand that in 4.1, but now 4.4 is out which suggests kde4 has become a mature product. Unfortunately, it is not.

If no kde-pim developer owns a windows mobile device, it's unlikely that any work could be done for it.

Still a bit irked but I guess that's just the reality of it. I'd also like to throw in that with Windows Mobile 7 coming out in December the 6 series are going to be deprecated. It's a complete rewrite too.

No, no! It is OK with the windows part. Simply because Evolution users can syncronize without much problems. It is purely KDE part which is missing. Will I be able to sync with Nokia? Or maybe Android?

Without looking, i would assume Gnome is simply using opensync 0.22 (latest stable of that release, i think). Gnome didn't do an architecture jump like KDE did, so their plugin for opensync 0.22 is still working.