[pim/kontact] doc/kontact: Update documentation
Emir SARI
null at kde.org
Wed Dec 24 15:44:40 GMT 2025
Git commit c8dc73c1ea99eff9bfa2f6bcd6ab0ec4080a8577 by Emir SARI.
Committed on 24/12/2025 at 15:00.
Pushed by winterz into branch 'master'.
Update documentation
M +23 -65 doc/kontact/index.docbook
https://invent.kde.org/pim/kontact/-/commit/c8dc73c1ea99eff9bfa2f6bcd6ab0ec4080a8577
diff --git a/doc/kontact/index.docbook b/doc/kontact/index.docbook
index 060ff4768..d7263ef94 100644
--- a/doc/kontact/index.docbook
+++ b/doc/kontact/index.docbook
@@ -41,8 +41,8 @@
<legalnotice>&FDLNotice;</legalnotice>
-<date>2016-12-08</date>
-<releaseinfo>5.4.40 (Applications 16.12)</releaseinfo>
+<date>2025-12-11</date>
+<releaseinfo>6.6.0 (KDE Gear 25.12)</releaseinfo>
<abstract><para>&kontact; is the integrated solution to your personal
information management (&PIM;) needs. It combines well-known &kde;
@@ -56,7 +56,6 @@ address book and other &PIM; functionality.</para></abstract>
<keyword>KMail</keyword>
<keyword>Organizer</keyword>
<keyword>KAddressBook</keyword>
-<keyword>KNotes</keyword>
<keyword>Akregator</keyword>
<keyword>PIM</keyword>
<keyword>groupware</keyword>
@@ -70,21 +69,16 @@ address book and other &PIM; functionality.</para></abstract>
<chapter id="introduction">
<title>Introduction</title>
-<para>&kontact; is the integrated solution for personal information
-management. It combines the well-known &kde; applications for email,
-scheduling, address book, and notes (&kmail;, &korganizer;,
-&kaddressbook;, and &knotes;)
-into a single interface. Being
-based on a true component framework &kontact; provides exactly the
-same functionality as the stand-alone applications, and adds more
-features, by making use of the integrated way &kontact; runs the
-applications as components. Users still retain the choice of which
-applications are run within &kontact; and which are run
-stand-alone.</para>
-
-<para>In addition to the functionality of the individual applications &kontact;
-provides a summary view and advanced drag & drop features between
-components.
+<para>&kontact; is the integrated solution for personal information management.
+It combines the well-known &kde; applications for email, scheduling and address book
+(&kmail;, &korganizer;, &kaddressbook;) into a single interface. Being based on a
+true component framework &kontact; provides exactly the same functionality as the
+stand-alone applications, and adds more features, by making use of the integrated
+way &kontact; runs the applications as components. Users still retain the choice of
+which applications are run within &kontact; and which are run stand-alone.</para>
+
+<para>In addition to the functionality of the individual applications, &kontact;
+provides a summary view and advanced drag & drop features between components.
</para>
</chapter>
@@ -114,10 +108,6 @@ them stand-alone.
<term><ulink url="help:/kaddressbook">&kaddressbook;</ulink></term>
<listitem><para>The &kde; contact manager.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><ulink url="help:/knotes">&knotes;</ulink></term>
- <listitem><para>The &kde; sticky notes application.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><ulink url="help:/akregator">&akregator;</ulink></term>
<listitem><para>The &kde; RSS feed reader.</para>
@@ -201,9 +191,7 @@ icon in the Side Pane indicates to which application the Main View belongs.
<phrase>&kontact;'s Main View</phrase>
</textobject>
<caption>
-<para>
- &kontact;'s Main View
-</para>
+<para>&kontact;'s Main View</para>
</caption>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>
@@ -215,7 +203,7 @@ starts with. The first is supplying an argument to the &kontact; program call
certain mode.</para>
<para>To get to it, go to <menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu>
-<guimenuitem>Configure Kontact</guimenuitem></menuchoice> and click on
+<guimenuitem>Configure &kontact;</guimenuitem></menuchoice> and click on
<guilabel>Kontact</guilabel> in the list.</para>
<screenshot>
@@ -226,9 +214,7 @@ certain mode.</para>
<phrase>&kontact; Starting Component Setting</phrase>
</textobject>
<caption>
-<para>
- &kontact; Starting Component Setting
-</para>
+<para>&kontact; Starting Component Setting</para>
</caption>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>
@@ -478,10 +464,10 @@ distinction is available in the
<para>The default view when starting &kontact; for the first time is the Summary
View. It shows an overview of the most relevant information provided by the
-selected &kontact; components. These can be notes, imminent
-appointments or birthdays, due to-dos, new messages &etc; Which information is
-shown is configurable by selecting the corresponding components in the <link
-linkend="configuration">&kontact; configuration dialog</link>.</para>
+selected &kontact; components. These can be imminent appointments or birthdays,
+due to-dos, new messages &etc; Which information is shown is configurable by
+selecting the corresponding components in the <link linkend="configuration">
+&kontact; configuration dialog</link>.</para>
<screenshot>
<screeninfo>&kontact;'s Summary View</screeninfo>
@@ -686,34 +672,6 @@ of these messages there are and which folder they are in.
</screenshot>
</sect2>
-<sect2 id="summary-view-config-notes">
-<title>&kontact; Summary Plugins: Notes</title>
-
-<para>
-The <quote>Notes</quote> plugin for &kontact;'s Summary View adds an
-area in the view labeled <guilabel>Popup Notes</guilabel>. This area
-displays all current notes' titles (titles default to the date/time
-the note was created). Clicking on the title of a note will bring up
-the Notes area.
-</para>
-
-<screenshot>
-<screeninfo>&kontact; Notes Summary Plugin</screeninfo>
-<mediaobject>
-<imageobject>
-<imagedata format="PNG" fileref="summary-view-notes.png"/>
-</imageobject>
-<textobject>
-<phrase>&kontact; Notes Summary Plugin</phrase>
-</textobject>
-<caption>
-<para>
-&kontact; Notes Summary Plugin
-</para>
-</caption>
-</mediaobject>
-</screenshot>
-</sect2>
<sect2 id="summary-view-config-todo-list">
<title>&kontact; Summary Plugins: To-do List</title>
@@ -861,7 +819,7 @@ mode of &DBus; is used.</para>
<para>&kontact;</para>
-<para>Program copyright 2001-2021, The &kde; Developers</para>
+<para>Program copyright 2001-2025, The &kde; Developers</para>
<para>Contributors:</para>
@@ -1016,8 +974,8 @@ behave more like other groupware clients.
<para>
Outlook users are accustomed to typing a list of addresses in the To:,
CC: or BCC: fields separated by a semicolon (';') character in addition
-to a comma (','). By default, &kontact; only allows the comma as an address
-separator character. To also allow the semicolon, change the
+to a comma (','). By default, &kontact; only allows the comma as an address
+separator character. To also allow the semicolon, change the
<option>AllowSemicolonAsAddressSeparator</option> from false to true
in the installed <filename>share/config.kcfg/messagecomposer.kcfg</filename> file.
</para>
@@ -1030,7 +988,7 @@ in the installed <filename>share/config.kcfg/messagecomposer.kcfg</filename> fil
<title>RFC Compromises</title>
<para>&kontact; is designed to interoperate as well as is possible
-with a wide variety of groupware solutions. To that end, we sometimes
+with a wide variety of groupware solutions. To that end, we sometimes
make design compromises with respect to the various Internet RFCs
that provide the basis for low-level libraries on which &kontact;
relies heavily.</para>
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