Nightmare in PIM-land

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Sun Apr 22 15:16:56 UTC 2012


On 22/04/2012 15:15, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I'm trying to make sense of the setup in kdepim-4.8.2-1.fc16.i686.
> 
> I can say at once that this facility is in a terrible mess,
> The documentation is either non-existent (KAddressBook),
> out-of-date (<http://userbase.kde.org/KAddressBook>),
> or utterly confused and confusing (The Kontact Handbook).
> 
> The best place to start seems to be f=>System Settings=>Personal 
> Information.
> Clicking on this lists a number of Akonadi "resources".
> 
> I have 4 entries here which seem to be relevant to my present purpose:
>   Address Book
>   Personal Contacts
>   LDAP Address Book
>   akonadi_googledata_resource_0
> 
> Let me call these my four Contact Lists.
> On highlighting any of the first three, and clicking on Modify,
> I get some information about the entry.
> Address Book points to ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf
> Personal Contacts points to ~/.local/share/contacts/
> LDAP Address Book points to the OpenLDAP database on my server
> akonadi_googledata_resource_0 points to my Google email address.
> 
> Now I've left System Settings, and gone to f=>Office=>Personal Information 
> Manager.
> (I can get to the same place in many ways.)
> My 4 Contact Lists appear, together with a Search folder,
> which I shall ignore for the moment.
> 
> I've highlighted Address Book, which is empty at the moment,
> and added a New Contact, "Anne Murphy",
> and a New Group, "Knapton Court Residents Association".
> Checking, I see that the contact is indeed added to 
> ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf
> The group appears in the file ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc/distlists
> 
> However, I can see no way to add the contact to the group.
> 
> According to <http://userbase.kde.org/KAddressBook>
> -------------------------------
> Groups will replace Distribution Lists.
> Auto completion makes it quite easy to add entries to the group.
> In KDE SC <= 4.4.2 you can't use the group quite like a distribution list,
> typing the name and expecting it to be expanded into a list of names.
> You can, though, copy and paste the list of names from the right-hand panel.
> -------------------------------
> I don't really understand what this means,
> but I don't see any way of associating or adding a contact
> to a group.
> 
As you can tell from the version number, that was a workaround written a
long time ago.

To add an address you should be able to click on the empty space in the
Group popup and paste in addresses - when completion is working again in
4.9 that will be easier.

Anne


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