Where is the Kontact address book in 4.2?

[Richard Dawson]

On Thursday 13 August 2009 01:29:27 Anne Wilson wrote:
> 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

And what other Kontact-related applications might I be missing?  
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