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&kpilot; User's GuideCarlosLeonhardWoelzcarloswoelz@imap-mail.comAdriaandeGrootgroot@kde.orgDanPilone199920002001200220032004Adriaan de Groot20042005Carlos Woelz&FDLNotice;2004-06-27&kpilotver;
&kpilot; &kpilotver; is the &kde; version of the Desktop &HotSync; software for
&PalmOne; handhelds, the &ThreeCom; &PalmPilot; and other &PalmOS; devices.
KDEKPilotkdepimpalm pilotsynchronizationIntroduction
&kpilot; &kpilotver; is an application that synchronizes your &PalmPilot; or
similar device (like the &Handspring; &Visor;, the &Sony; &Clie; or other
&PalmOS; devices) with your &kde; desktop, much like the Palm Desktop &HotSync;
software does for &Windows;. &kpilot; can back-up, restore, and &HotSync; your
&PalmPilot;. It can synchronize the built-in applications with their &kde;
counterparts. It also features additional conduits for third-party software.
There is a web page for &kpilot;: the Official &kpilot; Home Page. The KDE-PIM website also offers useful information
on the subject of PIM in general. &kpilot; shares the
kdepim-users mailing list, kdepim-users@kde.org. See the mailing lists page for more
information on subscribing and unsubscribing from the list.
Trademarks
&kpilot; describes synchronization operations
with &PalmOS; devices, and it uses the word &HotSync;
to name those synchronization operations,
while recognizing that &HotSync; is a trademark of
Palm, Inc. Holders of other trademarks, such as
&Handspring; &Visor;, &Sony; &Clie;, and
the Palm, Inc. trademarks &PalmPilot; and
Zire
are recognized as well.
Overview of &kpilot;
&kpilot; consists of two parts: the &kpilot; daemon, which sits
in the system tray and handles the actual communication with
the &handheld;, and the normal &kpilot; program, which lets
you configure the daemon and view the databases on your
&handheld;. In normal operation, you will not need to use &kpilot;
itself very much, since the daemon handles communication unobtrusively
and synchronizes your data to &kde; applications like &korganizer;
and &knotes;. &kpilot; is integrated into &kontact; as well.
It is vital to configure &kpilot; before use. At the very least,
you need to tell it which hardware device to use to communicate with
your &handheld;.
Configuration settings are described at length in
the section on configuring &kpilot;.
For the impatient, the configuration wizard
can set up most things for you.
Once &kpilot; is configured, you should make a backup of your &handheld; first. That is to be on the
safe side. Once that is done, you can just leave the &kpilot; daemon running in
the system tray, and all you need to do is press the &HotSync; button, and
changes in the &handheld; data and the &kde; applications will be synchronized, so that the information matches
again on both the &handheld; and the desktop.
If you want to examine the
data stored on your &handheld;, the built in viewers can be used. This allows you to view
memos, addresses, &etc;. There is a generic hexadecimal database viewer for
advanced use.
Finally, &kpilot; can be used to install
new programs and databases on your &handheld;.
&configuring-kpilot;
&using-kpilot;
&synchronization;
&kpilot-faq;
Credits and License
&kpilot;
Program copyright 1998-2000 by &Dan.Pilone;
&Dan.Pilone.mail;
Contributors:
Adriaan de Groot groot@kde.org&Preston.Brown; pbrown@redhat.comVCal and Todo Conduits by: Herwin Jan Steehouwer,
Kenneth Albanowski, &Michael.Kropfberger;
Popmail Conduit overhaul: Marko Grönroos
&kaddressbook; Conduit: Greg Stern
Patches by:
Jörn Ahrens,
Robert Ambrose,
Jörg Habenicht,
Philipp Hullmann,
Dag Nygren,
Scott Presnell,
Heiko Purnhagen,
Chuck Robey
and
Jay Summet
Documentation copyright 2000,2001 Adriaan de Groot groot@kde.org.
Documentation copyright 2004,2005 Carlos Leonhard Woelz
carloswoelz@imap-mail.com
&underFDL;
&underGPL;
&documentation.index;