[kdepim-users] KDEPIM 4.8.1 showstopper - for me at least

[O. Sinclair]

On 23/03/12 12:21, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Friday, 2012-03-23, O. Sinclair wrote:
>> On 23/03/12 11:56, Mathias Homann wrote:
>>> Am Freitag, 23. März 2012, 11:25:26 schrieb O. Sinclair:
>>>> On 17/03/12 15:35, O. Sinclair wrote:
>>>>> On 17/03/12 13:54, Sérgio Basto wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, 2012-03-15 at 10:31 +0100, Mathias Homann wrote:
>>>>>>> I can confirm this misbehaviour for KDE 4.8.1 on openSUSE 12.1.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I just filed https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=296050 about it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> you already have some bugs open with this subject let me check :
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259949
>>>>>> get a vote there :)
>>>>>> 1083 votes and counting :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> bye,
>>>>>>> MH
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Am Donnerstag, 15. März 2012, 10:40:52 schrieb O. Sinclair:
>>>>>>>> For starters I am on Kubuntu so this may be distro specific. If I
>>>>>>>> can get that confirmed I will consider swapping distro. If NOT, I
>>>>>>>> am on 4.7.4 until this bug is solved.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> In short - I have tried 4.8.1 on stable 11.10 and beta 12.04
>>>>>>>> Kubuntu. In
>>>>>>>> both cases I can not get KMail and KAddressbook to function
>>>>>>>> together.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On writing a new email I type the first letters of an email address
>>>>>>>> in the "To" (or CC, BCC etc) field - "recent addresses" will come
>>>>>>>> up with suggestions but not Personal Contacts or ANY addressbook
>>>>>>>> (vcard etc) that I have tried. Distribution lists do not work, even
>>>>>>>> if chosen viaN
>>>>>
>>>>> No, I would not say it is the same. From 4.8.x NOTHING works with
>>>>> addressbook autocompletion - in 4.7.x it works on and off (my
>>>>> experience). So to me this is new and quite frankly I don't understand
>>>>> how coders can overlook something so basic.. if you are on KDE and use
>>>>> KMail/Kontact that is
>>>>
>>>> well well, on forums.kde.org a developer claims that this was
>>>> deliberately removed to "complete transfer to Akonadi" but is back in
>>>> "trunk". But will not be back in main code until 4.9...
>>>>
>>>> which means 4.8.x is a no-go area for me at least
>>>
>>> link please, I would like to comment on that.
>>
>> http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=215&t=100742
>
> So a user running a self built version thinks that a possible cause could have
> been a porting artifact.
> Not sure how this translates into "a developer claims this was deliberately
> removed".
>
> Interestingly one commentor on this thread wrote that it works for him.
> Maybe we should also translate this in a similar manner as "a developer claims
> this was deliberately implemented to quickly send emails to contacts"
>
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more specifically he states he is "System Settings and Device Actions 
KCM maintainer". Not quite mr. Average User but to me a developer. 
Though perhaps not of KDEPIM but I struggle to remember when anyone but 
Ingo Klöcker to active part on this list or other forums. Or even on the 
bug reports I now and then read.

Sinclair
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