[kdepim-users] More breakage on upgrade to 4.4.3

[Raj Mathur]

On Sunday 23 May 2010, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Sunday 23 May 2010, Raj Mathur wrote:
> > - I use VCard directory to store my 16K+ contacts.  kaddressbook
> > now doesn't allow me to add that as a data source, giving the
> > message:
> >   Could not add address book: Agent instance creation timed out
> Hmm. Did you try whether this is caused by the number of contacts in
> the address book?

That could be true if it first gave a chance to select an address book 
type and the file/directory.  At the moment, when you select "Add 
Address Book/VCard Directory" it just waits a few seconds and then you 
get the message described above.  No dialogue opens up at all.

> > - I had a binary address book and an LDAP address book (for testing
> > earlier) which I'd removed.  Now they're back in kaddressbook, and
> > I cannot delete them.
> 
> What happens when you try to delete them (via the corresponding
> context menu entry in KAddressBook)?

I did what was suggested at:

  http://userbase.kde.org/Akonadi_4.4/Troubleshooting#Kubuntu_10.4_Upgrade

and now the old address books are gone from kaddressbook.  Still can't 
add a new one, though.

> > - Control centre/Advanced/KDE Resources does show me my dir address
> > book, but does not allow me to add any more.  The only options in
> > the drop-down are: Contacts, Calendars, Notes, Alarms.
> 
> Forget about Control centre/Advanced/KDE Resources. KDE Resources are
> no longer supported directly by KAddressBook. KAddressBook does now
> use Akonadi. Simply create additional address books in KAddressBook.

See above :)

Is there any way to purge akonadi and nepomuk and just go back to the 
old kaddressbook interface, as in KDE 3.x?  That worked fine for me, and 
while the new architectures may be much more flexible and powerful, my 
personal need is for a simple e-mail address management tool with only 
add, delete and search features.  Is such a thing available in KDE 4.x?

Right now I'm really concerned about two critical things:

1. I have no clue where KMail is getting address completion from.  The 
16K+ addresses do seem to be present somewhere, but damned if I know 
where!

2. I am unable to add new addresses to the address book automagically, 
since I don't even know what application's DBUS interface I should be 
looking at.  KMail seems to know where to get addresses from, but looks 
like KMail is much smarter than me.

Oh, and Akonadi is still happily adding address books whenever it feels 
like (these are only in Akonadi, nowhere else in any app I can find).  
Deleting them makes no difference: like the Evil Dead, they just rise 
again and again: http://imgur.com/De5j8.png

Regards,

-- Raj
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