[Bug 292562] New: invalid media type text/directory

[Christopher Yeleighton]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=292562

           Summary: invalid media type text/directory
           Product: kaddressbook
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: openSUSE RPMs
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: kdepim-bugs at kde.org
        ReportedBy: giecrilj at stegny.2a.pl
                CC: tokoe at kde.org


Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.7.2) 
OS:                Linux

A contact copied to the clipboard is of type text/directory, which is unknown
even to KDE.  If I paste my contact data to a mail message, my recipients say
WTF?

It is really annoying how KDE does not enable me to efficiently communicate
with other people.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
  1. Tell KAddressBook to copy the selected contact to the clipboard.
  2. Tell KMail to paste into Composer.
  3. Tell KMail to open the attachment.

Actual Results:  
  2. text/directory
  3. opens in KWrite

Expected Results:  
  3. An offer to import the pasted contact into the address book.

OS: Linux (x86_64) release 3.1.0-1.2-desktop
Compiler: gcc
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Workaround: 
  4. Tell KWrite to save the attachment as .vcard.
  5. Tell Kontact to attach the .vcard file.

This workaround does *not* work when the recipient uses KDE because KDE does
not send VCards to KAddressBook.  It opens them in KWrite, which does not make
much sense if the VCard contains a photo.  

So in this case, the recipient also needs a workaround:

  6. Tell KAddressBook to import the VCard.

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