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My blog about Thunderbird and GSoC 2008

gContactSync version 0.1.1 released

Version 0.1.1 of gContactSync is out and available for download here.  Right-click and hit Save Link As, then install it in Thunderbird.

New Features:

  • Greatly improved Preferences dialog (thanks to some help from Leszek(teo)Życzkowski)
  • Bug 19960 – Add a preference to enable/disable the toolbar button
  • An icon (again, thanks to some help from Leszek(teo)Życzkowski)
  • Verbose logging is disabled by default (should speed things up slightly)

Bug Fixes:

  • Bug 19964 – Log file window is too small in Thunderbird 3.0b1pre
  • Bug 20099 – gdata.makeAuthBody does not encode the e-mail address or password
  • Bug 19959 – the sync toolbar item got a wrong icon and can’t be removed from toolbar – UPDATE – this may not have been fixed according to the bug reporter.  Please let me know if this still happens.

Basic Features

  • Synchronizes contacts between Google Mail and Mozilla Thunderbird (2 or 3)
  • Can synchronize several accounts with their own address books
  • Adds attributes and “types” for phone numbers and screennames to Thunderbird
  • Customizable with a preferences dialog
  • en-US and es-ES locales

More Information

As always, feedback, feature requests, and bug reports are appreciated, but please be patient as I’ve been extremely busy with college, work, and co-op/internship hunting.  Thanks to everybody who has provided feedback up to this point.

TraceMonkey Note – if you are using Thunderbird 3.0b1pre, you can try enabling TraceMonkey.  It made the synchronization process faster for me.  Great job everbody who worked on it!

October 18, 2008 Posted by pi | GSOC | , , , , , | 5 Comments