[kdepim-users] It shouldn't be this hard

[upscope]

On Sunday, May 23, 2010 05:29:52 am Art Alexion wrote:
> 2010/5/22 Ingo Klöcker <kloecker at kde.org>:
> > On Wednesday 19 May 2010, Art Alexion wrote:
> >> Yesterday, I upgraded my KDE from 4,4,2 to 4.4.3. and again,
> >> nepomuk/akonadi broke.  I fixed it -- once again -- with my
> >> tried and true methods of removing the akonadi directories
> >> under ~/.config and ~/.kde/config.
> >> 
> >> I haven't had an upgrade involving akonadi that didn't break
> >> it.
> >> 
> >> But it shouldn't be this hard.  I'm a fairly technical user,
> >> and I find the instability of this technology troublesome.
> >>  This isn't 4.0 anymore, We are up to 4.4, and the underlying
> >> KDE technologies are still unreliable.  I would no longer
> >> ever recommend KDE to a non-technical user.
> >> 
> >> While I still prefer the KDE apps, like kmail, konqueror, k3b,
> >> etc., the KDE framework is far less stable than even Windows
> >> 98.
> >> 
> >> This is meant as a plea more than a complaint.  Please...
> > 
> > FWIW, after reading your message I have upgraded my KDE SC from
> > 4.4.2 to 4.4.3. After using 4.4.3 for the past few days
> > without any problems I remembered your message.
> > 
> > I cannot confirm your observations. Quite the opposite. On
> > openSUSE 11.2 upgrading from 4.4.2 to 4.4.3 does not seem to
> > introduce any problems or instabilities. So, as far as I can
> > tell, the problems you are experiencing are either not caused
> > by KDE but by your distro or you are using KDE PIM differently
> > than me. I am mostly using KMail only, but I had a quick look
> > at the address book and I didn't see or notice anything
> > unusual.
> 
> I, too, am using kmail only (plus Kasddressbook through kmail.  I
> think the difference. as you point out, is that you are using
> Opensuse and I am using kubuntu.  I much prefer apt to yum, but
> it seems that kubuntu has not been doing as good a job packaging
> KDE since the introduction of KDE 4.

I'm using openSUSE 11.2 and have some problems with kmail and 
kaddressbook. I can see my personal contacts and default addressbook 
in Kmail -->New Message--> Select. Also see new and old distribution 
lists I created. If I go to Kaddressbook from konsole or kontact I 
only see Personal Contacts (including new distribution list (groups) 
but no way to edit my default address book. Still trying to find 
solution. Appears to be using MySQL database and the Contacts folder 
under ~/.local/share/contacts. Have not found way to query mysql 
database from command line or phpmyadmin. Was looking for way to 
move mysql database (in .local) to my mysql server (localhost) but 
have been side tracked.
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