Where is the Kontact address book in 4.2?

Richard Dawson rcdawson at att.net
Thu Aug 13 04:55:28 BST 2009


On Sunday 09 August 2009 17:20:03 Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
> > I am just looking at KDE 4.2, as provided in Mandriva 2009.1
>
> (spring).  In the
>
> > old Konctact that I have used for the past several years the left
>
> panel of
>
> > Kontact included a choice for "contacts" which opened the address
>
> book.  I
>
> > don't see any trace of an address book in the Kontact with 4.2.  The
> > documentation talks about KDE 4 integrating Personal Information
>
> Management
>
> > across applications....
> >
> > How does one access the addressbook, whatever it might be called?
>
> Settings | Configure Kontact | Contacts
>
> After arriving at that location, check the only box that you will find:
> "Enable Contacts"
>
> This is on Kontact 1.4.4 and KDE 4.2.4
>
> As an experiment, I unchecked the "Enable Contacts" box and clicked
> "OK"  The result was that my "Contacts" icon disappeared from the left
> panel.  I checked the box again and clicked "OK" and it came back...
>
> HTH
>
> Steven P. Ulrick
> ___________________________________________________
My version is KDE 4.2.2, as supplied with Mandriva 2009.1.  There is 
no "Contacts" under Settings|Configure Kontact.  There are only Kontact, 
Summary, Mail, and Usenet

Ah, but installing Kaddressbook solved the problem!
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