I like Evolution overall, but I opted for it just to have one contacts
list, palm and desktop together.

Evolution manages contacts nicely, and PalmOS 5 too, but moving contacts
from one to another is disastrous. The main reason is that PalmOS have
separate last name and first name fields, while Evolution has a single
name field, but also a "card name" field. Both solutions are nice but,
when used at the same time, make significant data change and even loss.

Example 1: "Luciana Espírito Santo" (1 first name, 2 last names): in my
palm I named her "Santo" / "Luciana Espírito"; after syncing, changed
in Evolution to "Luciana Espírito Santo", full name and card name; back
to the palm, she became "Luciana Santo".

Example 2: "Marcelo Pereira da Vitória" (1 first name, 2 last names,
2nd with "da" like "Leonardo da Vinci"): in my palm I named him "Pereira
da Vitória" / "Marcelo", since he prefers to be called by his "first
last name"; after syncing, changed in Evolution to "Marcelo Pereira da
Vitória", again full name and card name; back to the palm, he became
"da Vitória, Marcelo Pereira" - it's even worse than just "Vitória,
Marcelo Pereira da"!

This is currently very disturbing, and I've got to duplicate my contacts
in Evolution to prevent further damage. Hence, if I add an e-mail in my
palm, after syncing I'll have to manually transport the address to the
"no sync" contact.

I'd like to make clear that it's not Novell/Ximian's "fault". I just
need major addressbook software developers to sit down together and
stablish a common ground.