[kdepim-users] kaddressbook 4.4 - contacts

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 18 March 2010 18:50:05 Kishore wrote:
> On Thursday 18 March 2010 16:05:03 Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Wednesday 17 March 2010 18:56:06 Art Alexion wrote:
> > > On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 6:38 AM, Anne Wilson <annew at kde.org> wrote:
> > > > On Saturday 13 March 2010 22:51:03 Art Alexion wrote:
> > > >> On Wednesday 10 March 2010 00:36:39 Sergio Monteiro Basto wrote:
> > > >> > When I am composing one email and press select and I see contacts
> > > >> > , personal contacts, and can't see the new address book.
> > > >> > is this correct , or kmail is not update ?
> > > >> 
> > > >> I am having the same problem with Kubutu 9.10 and kaddressbook
> > > >> 4.4.1/kmail 1.13.1
> > > > 
> > > > Have you tried starting kaddressbook as described in
> > > > http://userbase.kde.org/Akonadi#I_can.27t_see_any_details_in_my_Addre
> > > > ss _B ook ?
> > > 
> > > Not applicable as I only run kmail and kaddressbook as stand alone
> > > apps all of the time.
> > 
> > Hmm - must be one of the kubuntu specials, then, I think.  Certainly I
> > can see the entries in all my addressbooks.
> 
> Actually the problem here is that kaddressbook is ported to akonadi while
> kmail is not yet. Hence, if you have your contacts in an akonadi-only
> resource (such as "Personal Contacts" which are stored in
> ~/.local/share/contacts) you will not be abloe to see those ids from
> kmail. 

I can.

> For compatibility with kmail for the time being make sure that your
> contacts are stored in a "KDE address book" resource for a file at
> ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf
> 
> You can create this resource from akonadi configuration module in system
> settings if not already present.

Yes, new addresses should be added to std.vcf.  Akonadi will cache them in 
~/.local/share/contacts  A 'from the horse's mouth' explanation of what and 
where things are is at http://userbase.kde.org/Akonadi_and_AddressBook

Anne
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