[Bug 222678] Missing fields in new Kaddressbook for KDE SC 4.4

[Alessandro Rossini]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=222678


Alessandro Rossini <me at alessandrorossini.org> changed:

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--- Comment #15 from Alessandro Rossini <me alessandrorossini org>  2010-03-06 15:26:46 ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> Hej Dotan,
> 
> the fields will be added in later versions of KAddressBook again.
> As already stated in my blog entries, KAddressBook in 4.4 won't be
> feature complete, the main target was to get a working version based
> on Akonadi.

Hi Thomas,

It looks like what happened with the release of the new KAddressBook reflects
in scale what happened with the release of KDE 4.0. On one hand KDE developers
released KDE 4.0 before it had reached feature parity with KDE 3.5. This is
because KDE developers intended KDE 4.0 as a technological preview aimed only
at developers, testers and early adopters. On the other hand several KDE users
expected KDE 4.0 to be released only after it had reached feature parity with
KDE 3.5. This is (probably) because ".0" means final and feature complete in
many free software projects around. While KDE 4.0 was a major upgrade, however,
KDE 4.4 is a minor one. I would claim that it is reasonable then for KDE users
to expect KDE 4.4 to maintain feature parity with KDE 4.3. I appreciate the
efforts you and other KDE developers have spent in developing the brand new
KAddressBook from scratch, but was it really necessary to release it as part of
KDE 4.4? Was not it better to wait until KDE 4.5? I have always used categories
intensively, and now the missing support for categories is obliging me to edit
vCard files manually every time I add a new contact to the address book. This
is so annoying.
Unfortunately, I do not have time nor skills to contribute code, but I could
make a donation to get this bug fixed as soon as possible. The donation would
be done according to the proposal of "payment/donation to get bugs fixed" I
made last year on the brainstorm forum of KDE:
http://forum.kde.org/brainstorm.php#idea46860
Is this proposal interesting for you?

Best regards.

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