Where is the Kontact address book in 4.2?

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 13 August 2009 04:55:28 Richard Dawson wrote:
> 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...
> >
>
> 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!
>
For some strange reason Mandriva seem to supply the Kontact wrapper without 
linking it in any way to the applications it can wrap.  You have to install 
them separately - at least I had to!

Anne
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