[Kde-pim] KDE Addressbook on an Appliance

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Tuesday 04 May 2010, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 May 2010 10:05:28 Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 2010-05-04, Klaas Freitag wrote:
> > > Am Sonntag 02 Mai 2010 11:23:30 schrieben Sie:
> > > > On Friday 30 April 2010 18:45:12 Klaas Freitag wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > > > - import data from a file format like vcf?
> > > > > so that the user, when he starts the kaddressbook in the
> > > > > running appliance, finds some preconfigured contacts.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Help would be very appreciated.
> > > > 
> > > > This might help:
> > > > http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/PIM/Akonadi/Firstrun
> > > 
> > > Thanks, interesting reading. The first run happens when booting
> > > the appliance first. And the 'Personal Contacts' addressbook is
> > > there.
> > > 
> > > I still need a possibility to fill some initial content into the
> > > address book, other than interactive. Is there really no
> > > possibility?
> > 
> > The personal contacts resource works on a directory of vcard files,
> > one contact per file.
> > 
> > Default location is $HOME/.local/share/contacts
> > 
> > You can probably just copy such files into that.
> > Or use first run to create a vcard file resource and provide a
> > single vcard file with multiple contacts.
> 
> There's a good deal of confusion around, about this.  On this laptop,
> for instance, it was brand-new, therefore a clean install.  When I
> started kontact, it carried out first-run.  At that point I had no
> addressbok set up - so I ended up with an empty
> ~/.local/share/contacts.  At that point I'm left guessing.  And I
> might say, that I've seen other users perplexed at the same point.

Guessing? Guessing what?


> In fact I copied my std.vcf from the old laptop, set it as an
> addressbook, then simply copied all the entries into Personal
> Contacts.  As far as I can tell there were no ill effects.  But
> users shouldn't be left guessing like this.

I'm not sure where you are getting at. What are you trying to tell us? 
What should we do differently/better?


Regards,
Ingo
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