Kontact - is anybody using this?

[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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