KMail and KAddressBook

[Timothy Murphy]

Does anybody understand, and use, KAddressBook with KMail?

I find KAddressBook completely incomprehensible.
Eg

1. I have entered Anne Murphy as a new contact.
I know it is there, because I see it if I Export
my address book in CSV format.
But I don't see it if I search for Anne, or Murphy.
In fact I am unable to see any contacts in my address book.

I read in the KAddressBook handbook:
"We can expect to see the data becoming visible again 
in the coming version releases."

Is that my problem?
What exactly is the point of invisible data? 

2. If I start a new message in KMail,
and start to enter the To name,
I never get auto-completion from the address book.

Have I not set up my address book properly?
Or is there some initial step I am supposed to take?

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

[Rex Dieter]

Is nepomuk enabled?

On Oct 11, 2012, at 7:23 PM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard(a)eircom.net&gt; wrote:

>  Does anybody understand, and use, KAddressBook with KMail?
>  
>  I find KAddressBook completely incomprehensible.
>  Eg
>  
>  1. I have entered Anne Murphy as a new contact.
>  I know it is there, because I see it if I Export
>  my address book in CSV format.
>  But I don't see it if I search for Anne, or Murphy.
>  In fact I am unable to see any contacts in my address book.
>  
>  I read in the KAddressBook handbook:
>  "We can expect to see the data becoming visible again 
>  in the coming version releases."
>  
>  Is that my problem?
>  What exactly is the point of invisible data? 
>  
>  2. If I start a new message in KMail,
>  and start to enter the To name,
>  I never get auto-completion from the address book.
>  
>  Have I not set up my address book properly?
>  Or is there some initial step I am supposed to take?
>  
>  -- 
>  Timothy Murphy  
>  e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
>  tel: [phone]
>  s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
>  
>  
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[Christos Lazaridis]

Hi,

I have exactly the same problem but never bothered to try and debug it.

@Rex: In my case nepomuk is enabled but with file indexing service disabled.

cheers,
  Christos.

On Thursday 11 of October 2012 19:51:39 Rex Dieter wrote:
>  Is nepomuk enabled?
>  
>  On Oct 11, 2012, at 7:23 PM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard(a)eircom.net&gt; wrote:
>  > Does anybody understand, and use, KAddressBook with KMail?
>  > 
>  > I find KAddressBook completely incomprehensible.
>  > Eg
>  > 
>  > 1. I have entered Anne Murphy as a new contact.
>  > I know it is there, because I see it if I Export
>  > my address book in CSV format.
>  > But I don't see it if I search for Anne, or Murphy.
>  > In fact I am unable to see any contacts in my address book.
>  > 
>  > I read in the KAddressBook handbook:
>  > "We can expect to see the data becoming visible again
>  > in the coming version releases."
>  > 
>  > Is that my problem?
>  > What exactly is the point of invisible data?
>  > 
>  > 2. If I start a new message in KMail,
>  > and start to enter the To name,
>  > I never get auto-completion from the address book.
>  > 
>  > Have I not set up my address book properly?
>  > Or is there some initial step I am supposed to take?
>  
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[Timothy Murphy]

Rex Dieter wrote:

>  Is nepomuk enabled? 
Thanks for your response.
When I read it, I thought "That must be the solution",
but in fact when I went to System Settings=>Desktop Search
I was surprised to find that "Enable Nepomuk Semantic Desktop",
"Enable Nepomuk File Indexer" and "Enable Email Indexer"
are all enabled (ticked).


> > Does anybody understand, and use, KAddressBook with KMail?
> > 
> > I find KAddressBook completely incomprehensible.
> > Eg
> > 
> > 1. I have entered Anne Murphy as a new contact.
> > I know it is there, because I see it if I Export
> > my address book in CSV format.
> > But I don't see it if I search for Anne, or Murphy.
> > In fact I am unable to see any contacts in my address book.
> > 
> > I read in the KAddressBook handbook:
> > "We can expect to see the data becoming visible again
> > in the coming version releases."
> > 
> > Is that my problem?
> > What exactly is the point of invisible data?
> > 
> > 2. If I start a new message in KMail,
> > and start to enter the To name,
> > I never get auto-completion from the address book.
> > 
> > Have I not set up my address book properly?
> > Or is there some initial step I am supposed to take? 
-- 
Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: [phone]
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland