Is there such a thing as a "standard" contacts book?

[Amedee Van Gasse]

On Wed, August 3, 2011 21:19, Tommy Trussell wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 5:40 AM, Amedee Van Gasse
> <amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be>wrote:
>
>> On Sun, July 24, 2011 13:18, David Fletcher wrote:
>> > Thanks for the replies, folks.
>> >
>> > I've taken a look at a couple of information pages and the whole thing
>> > looks horribly complex and OTT for something that I would have thought
>> > ought to be reasonably easy and commonplace.
>>
>> My best guess is that nobody bothers any more, when you have Google.
>> Unfortunately there is no ldap.google.com, but take a look at
>> GCALDaemon:
>> http://gcaldaemon.sourceforge.net/usage4.html
>> It's almost point-and-click, but you still need a server somewhere to
>> run
>> GCALDaemon. That's OK for me, I share a box in a datacenter, but it's
>> not
>> suitable for everyone.
>>
>
> If you have your contacts in Google and want to share them with
> Thunderbird
> email clients you might look at Zindus http://www.zindus.com/ (Thunderbird
> plugin) as it is much easier to configure and use than gcaldaemon. Zindus
> is
> not perfect but it works pretty well, whereas I kept running into
> configuration issues trying to get gcaldaemon to work at all.

Bookmarked, thanks.