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

[O. Sinclair]

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

it was disabled, not removed, but the effect of it is the same for us 
end-users...



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