[Kde-mobile-users] Installing Kontact Touch on N9 Harmattan

[Rigo Wenning]

Andre, 

if you're generating new packages anyway, there is another big issue that you 
may want to fix in the new version:

Whenever I'm in a menu that requires text-input, the N9 screen keyboard is 
triggered. The keyboard is actually taking the lower half of my screen. But 
under the keyboard is the <OK> button. As long as the keyboard is on the 
screen, you can't reach the <OK> button. 

Easy, I thought, just tap on the chrome of the application, it will let you 
out of the text input field and the keyboard disappear thus giving me access 
to the <OK> button. But where ever I tap, the keyboard does not disappear. Now 
I'm stuck. The only way to get out is to end the application by swyping it 
away. 

Second: The N9 has this very nice swype keyboard that allows really fast text 
input. But having kontact touch being stuck in the landscape position, the 
swype keyboard is very spread out and takes large parts of screen real estate. 
So it would be nice to allow kontact touch to rotate. This would be even more 
true for a tablet computer.

As I don't know how much lacking functionality is due to missing 
virtuoso/nepomuk/akonadi, I can't tell how the synchronization with the 
computer's kontact works. So far I only managed manual integration. This looks 
like a crucial functionality for N9, but also for tablets based on fremantle.

And thanks for caring ;)

Rigo

On Friday 23 March 2012 17:05:02 Andre Heinecke wrote:
> Hi Rigo,
> 
> first let me thank you for your detailed analysis of this problem.
> 
> On Thursday 15 March 2012 15:49:56 Rigo Wenning wrote:
> > Dear Bernhard,
> > 
> > the problem is the virtuoso package from the kolab-repository.
> > https://files.kolab.org/local/maemo/dists/harmattan/binary-armel/virtuos
> > o/
> > 
> > The post installation script tries to make
> > ln -s virtuoso-opensource-6.1 virtuso in /etc/init.d/
> > which is protected by aegis, so it can't complete
> 
> Ugh, well i've promised I won't bitch about Aegis and just accept it as a
> fact of life :)
> 
> > in order to get my system clean again without actually removing kontact
> > touch entirely, it would be sufficient if a new version of the package
> > virtuoso- opensource-6.1 could be generated. This new package would omit
> > the link. I don't know which other packages call that script and have to
> > be adapted.
> 
> I'll see to it that I update the package soon, updated versions of Kontact
> Touch are a bit overdue atm anyway.
> 
> Of course if you like you could also just install scratchbox [1] and rebuild
> the package for yourself [2] :) (Putting it in the files.kolab.org repo
> would be no problem)
> 
> > But if you're at it. the N9 uses a systemd-system and not a sysV-system.
> > You may want to migrate startup scripts into /etc/init/ and remove from
> > /etc/init.d
> 
> I don't think we have any apart from virtuoso but I might be mistaken.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Andre
> 
> 1:
> http://harmattan-dev.nokia.com/docs/library/html/guide/html/Developer_Librar
> y_Alternative_development_environments_Platform_SDK_user_guide_Installing_Ha
> rmattan_Platform_SDK_Installing_Harmattan_Platform_SDK_manually.html#Install
> ing_the_Scratchbox_packages
> 
> 2: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/20
> 
> > Best,
> > 
> > Rigo
> > 
> > On Monday 12 March 2012 10:08:37 Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> > > HI Rigo,
> > > 
> > > Am Freitag 09 März 2012 18:51:45 schrieb Rigo Wenning:
> > > > just installed Kontact Touch on my N9 Harmattan PR 1.2
> > > > 
> > > > following remarks:
> > > > I used the description here and suggest whoever maintains that
> > > > page may want to update it.
> > > > http://userbase.kde.org/Kontact_Touch/Harmattan
> > > 
> > > thanks for trying and reporting here!
> > > Once the upgrade to PR 1.2 went well, it kept the Kontact Touch
> > > installation. So a new install for you von PR 1.2 seems to be
> > > different.
> > > 
> > > Any help with the wiki page is highly appreciated of course!
> > > Bernhard
> > 
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