Kontact - is anybody using this?

[Timothy Murphy]

As far as I can see, Kontact/Kaddressbook is not working,
contacts that are entered do not seem to be available
either in Kaddressbook or in KMail.

I entered a kaddressbook bug in the KDE bugzilla,
but as far as I can see several serious, even fatal, bugs
seem to have been left unanswered for months if not years.

-- 
Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: [phone]
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

[Rex Dieter]

On 10/15/2012 05:55 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>  As far as I can see, Kontact/Kaddressbook is not working,
>  contacts that are entered do not seem to be available
>  either in Kaddressbook or in KMail. 
Seems to work for me ok on my fresh install.

Are you saying that in kmail, clicking "select" to the right of To: or 
Cc: doesn't do anything?

(I do believe that autocomplete feature indeed is either incomplete or 
not working and disabled in kde-4.9.x, during 4.9 betas there were 
serious problems found I believe)

-- rex

[Timothy Murphy]

Rex Dieter wrote:

> > As far as I can see, Kontact/Kaddressbook is not working,
> > contacts that are entered do not seem to be available
> > either in Kaddressbook or in KMail.
>  
>  Seems to work for me ok on my fresh install.
>  
>  Are you saying that in kmail, clicking "select" to the right of To: or
>  Cc: doesn't do anything?
>  
>  (I do believe that autocomplete feature indeed is either incomplete or
>  not working and disabled in kde-4.9.x, during 4.9 betas there were
>  serious problems found I believe) 
Thanks very much.
I did not notice the Select button at the right-hand end of the To: window.
I see now that I can indeed insert an entry from my Personal Contacts
in that way.

It is just that the autofill feature, which I had been relying on,
does not seem to be working any more.

Also, if I go to KMail=>Tools=>Address Book,
I never get any response after entering a name in the Search window.
This seems to be completely non-functional.

Surprisingly, if I click on Import=>Import from LDAP server
I am able to search through my LDAP directory.
And I am able to use names from the LDAP directory in KMail,
after pressing on the Select button
and choosing Search Directory Service.

In summary, Kontact does seem just usable with KMail,
but the lack of proper documentation
and the non-functioning of the Search mechanism in KAddressBook,
make it less than perfect.

-- 
Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: [phone]
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

[Rex Dieter]

On 10/16/2012 10:33 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:

>  Also, if I go to KMail=>Tools=>Address Book,
>  I never get any response after entering a name in the Search window.
>  This seems to be completely non-functional. 
This part *should* work, provided nepomuk email indexing is enabled, 
apparently something indeed is going wrong there.

Here's a *long* bug on the history behind the issues, as well as some 
workarounds to try:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259949

-- rex

[Timothy Murphy]

Rex Dieter wrote:

>  On 10/16/2012 10:33 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>  
>   > Also, if I go to KMail=>Tools=>Address Book,
>   > I never get any response after entering a name in the Search window.
>   > This seems to be completely non-functional.
>  
>  This part *should* work, provided nepomuk email indexing is enabled,
>  apparently something indeed is going wrong there.
>  
>  Here's a *long* bug on the history behind the issues, as well as some
>  workarounds to try:
>  https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259949 
Thanks very much.
Your comments as always have been most helpful.

I read through the bug report,
and even tried one of the suggested workarounds,
going to System Settings=>Personal Information
and Modify-ing Personal Contacts.
Unfortunately the suggested Nepomuk addition was greyed out.
(In any case it would be taking me a bit out of my depth.)

The long history of the bug report that you remark on
is a little depressing, especially as it is not clear
if anyone is actually looking into the problem or problems.

Actually, your suggestion to click on the Select button in the To: window
when sending email has enabled me to use my contacts quite successfully.
The lack of auto-completion is only a mildly annoying feature.


-- 
Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: [phone]
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

[Martin (KDE)]

Am 16.10.2012 23:41, schrieb Timothy Murphy:
>  Rex Dieter wrote:
>  
> > On 10/16/2012 10:33 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> >
> >  > Also, if I go to KMail=>Tools=>Address Book,
> >  > I never get any response after entering a name in the Search window.
> >  > This seems to be completely non-functional.
> >
> > This part *should* work, provided nepomuk email indexing is enabled,
> > apparently something indeed is going wrong there.
> >
> > Here's a *long* bug on the history behind the issues, as well as some
> > workarounds to try:
> > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259949
>  
>  Thanks very much.
>  Your comments as always have been most helpful.
>  
>  I read through the bug report,
>  and even tried one of the suggested workarounds,
>  going to System Settings=>Personal Information
>  and Modify-ing Personal Contacts.
>  Unfortunately the suggested Nepomuk addition was greyed out.
>  (In any case it would be taking me a bit out of my depth.)
>  
>  The long history of the bug report that you remark on
>  is a little depressing, especially as it is not clear
>  if anyone is actually looking into the problem or problems.
>  
>  Actually, your suggestion to click on the Select button in the To: window
>  when sending email has enabled me to use my contacts quite successfully.
>  The lack of auto-completion is only a mildly annoying feature. 
I had this autocompletion problem as well and afaik I had to type a
complete word to get a hit. So in your case a simple "tim" will not lead
to any result but "timothy" would. I have no clue if this is still the
case (currently I use thunderbird because of the sogo integration).

Martin
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