[kdepim-users] kontact addressbook on kmail imap

Ingo Klöcker kloecker at kde.org
Tue May 12 18:40:36 BST 2009


On Tuesday 12 May 2009, Martin (KDE) wrote:
> Am Montag, 11. Mai 2009 schrieb Ingo Klöcker:
> > On Monday 11 May 2009, Andreas Petzold wrote:
> > > >> I'm not able to force the desired behaviour (kontact being
> > > >> started instead of kmail) by modifying the .desktop files and
> > > >> putting them in ~/.local/share/applications.
> > > >>
> > > >> My personal Kontact.desktop file now contains
> > > >>
> > > >> X-KDE-ServiceTypes=DBUS/ResourceBackend/IMAP,DBUS/Mailer
> > > >>
> > > >> while I've deleted this line from KMail.desktop. Still, KMail
> > > >> starts seperately when my session is restored.
> > > >
> > > > Did you also patch the global KMail.desktop or just your local
> > > > copy?
> > >
> > > no, I didn't touch the global KMail.desktop and Kontact.desktop
> > > files. Instead, I did put patched versions of both into
> > > ~/.local/share/applications.
> > >
> > > I've now tried again with a patched global KMail.desktop
> > > (commented out the X-KDE-ServiceTypes line) and it works! I don't
> > > understand why this way it does work but doesn't work with my
> > > local .desktop files.
>
> Thanks Andreas for testing this out. I took this solution too and it
> works as expected.
>
> > Your local .desktop files do not override/replace the global ones.
> > They are just used additionally to the global ones. So the global
> > ones defined KMail and Kontact as providers for service type
> > DBUS/ResourceBackend/IMAP and your local ones defined Kontact
> > (again) as provider for service type DBUS/ResourceBackend/IMAP.
>
> Hm, so there must be found a method to switch from kmail to kontact
> or vice versa on user preference overwriting the system default
> settings.

This problem will go away once KMail has been ported to Akonadi (which 
will hopefully happen for KDE 4.4).


Regards,
Ingo
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