Notices

The first iteration of Erminig-NG will concentrate on Fremantle Calendar (by the way, what is its official name?), but most of the work done there will be reused to also integrate support for GPE Calendar. Ideally I would like to have it modular enough to easily target any calendar.

So, in short, the final goal is to have sync capabilities for both Fremantle Calendar and GPE Calendar, in that order.

I'm going crazy here. Been trying to add extras as I can't find python-gdata in my app. list. After mucking around for ages, I found out that PR1.1 adds extras automatically (called maemo.org in application list).
When I browse extras I can see python-gdata, but it does not show up in applist on the N900.
What am I doing wrong!

EDIT: Never mind, figured it out. testing will commence.

Any word on the progress of the GUI? I'm all but willing to brick my phone for this app.

This is currently my only complaint on the n900 (and the only thing I've even found worth posting about). Any news would be great.

does Erminig-NG also sync with gmail tasks?

Not yet. As far as I know, google does not have public API for accessing gmail tasks.

http://code.google.com/p/gdata-issue.../detail?id=987

Once google has a public API for tasks, erminig-ng will likely support it eventually. (lorelei: Don't interpret this as me volunteering you for this!)

Thanks for the reply.
How about the multiple (and shared) calendars in google calendar? Can erminig-ng sync all of them? What about contacts?

Yes on multiple calendars.

I've only skimmed over the code at this point and haven't actually tried it out yet, so I can't answer on the shared calendars yet (though I'm guessing yes).

No on contacts.

I personally want to see all of these supported (in addition to tasks) and plan to help making them all happen. I've been sorta waiting to jump in until after the next release so I can see how lorelei is wrapping the calendar-backend API for use from python. There are other little improvements I have in mind from skimming the code last weekend, like preserving colors from google calendars and preserving the read-only flag on calendars (not sure what happens at the moment if you add an event on your n900 to a calendar that is a read-only google calendar).

I am also dying to have this. I was even willing to build it on the phone itself, but unfortunately that failed.

Quick update concerning Erminig-NG (and to answer some questions):

- no tasks or contact sync for the moment. This is still not on the radar, since I prefer to put priority on calendar sync

- GUI: not done yet. Still working on the core functionalities first. Once those are pinned down, GUI should be pretty straightforward (famous last words)

- the second public release of Erminig-NG is unfortunately late. In fact I was ready to post it last weekend, but a last-minute bug creeped up during the sync of 500 events at once and needs to be fixed before I can publicize the code. I'm almost done, but the week days are a bit crazy with work, so I can't rush it out.

As a reminder: the second release won't bring any user-visible improvements over the first release. The main change is the fact that I'm now using the C++ API to access the calendars instead of directly modifying the database. The API doesn't allow me to perform a 1:1 mapping between the DB calls and the API calls, so some additional logic must be implemented for it to work as I wish.

Third release will see the implementation of the recurring events and the GUI. Depending on how it goes I may make separate releases: first one with recurring events and then one with GUI (or the other way around).

Are you replying in the correct thread? As far as I know, installing the prerequisites for Erminig doesn't pull qt4 stuff. So far only python2.5 and python-gdata (+ dependencies) are pulled.

Next release will ask users to also pull in python-hildon for initial support of GUI, and there only GTK stuff is concerned and no qt at all.