[kdepim-users] kontact addressbook on kmail imap

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Saturday 18 April 2009, Martin (KDE) wrote:
> Am Freitag, 17. April 2009 schrieb Ingo Klöcker:
> > On Friday 17 April 2009, Martin (KDE) wrote:
> > > Hallo there
> > >
> > > every now and then I try to use my addressbook on my imap server.
> > > int the old KDE3 days there were major problems with german
> > > umlauts, so I delyed the use. Now I tried it again.
> > >
> > > Usually I let my kontact start automatically at login on my first
> > > desktop. Without selected imap resources this works as expected.
> > > With imap addressbook resource kmail is started as single
> > > seperate application before kontact. If I click on the
> > > corresponding mail icon within kontact the seperate kmail
> > > instance is shown.
> > >
> > > If I terminate (ctrl-q) the kmail instance an click on kontacts
> > > mail icon the embeded kmail instance is startet.
> > >
> > > Is there something I can config, that avoids starting the
> > > seperate kmail instance?
> >
> > In KDE 3 both, KMail and Kontact, installed desktop files (KMail:
> > dcopimap.desktop and dcopmail.desktop; Kontact:
> > kontactdcop.desktop) which added KMail/Kontact as provider for the
> > ServiceTypes DCOP/ResourceBackend/IMAP and DCOP/Mailer. I think the
> > former ServiceType is used by the IMAP resource.
> >
> > In KDE 4 D-Bus replaced DCOP, but there are probably still similar
> > desktop files. Deleting the desktop files belonging to KMail should
> > fix your problem. FWIW, I deleted kontactdcop.desktop because I
> > wanted the opposite behavior.
>
> I found KMail.desktop which defines a ServiceType
> DBUS/ResourceBackend/IMAP but no other program defines such a
> service. The service itself is defined in dbusimap.desktop but there
> is no application defined that uses this service.
>
> It seems to me, that the definition of services and their provider
> now is the other way round. Ther is one service definition and the
> provider are defined by the application desctop files.
>
> I try to hack the kontact desktop file and check if that changes
> anything. If I add this desktop file to my home .kde directory this
> new one is used instead of the system wide right? Where do I have to
> add the KMail.desktop file to my local .kde directory? My fedora box
> uses it under /usr/share/applications/kde4

AFAIK, nowadays, user desktop files should be stored in ~/.local/share. 
Desktop files stored in ~/.local/share are preferred over global 
desktop files.


Regards,
Ingo
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