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

[O. Sinclair]

On 23/03/12 17:48, O. Sinclair wrote:
> On 23/03/12 17:21, Kevin Krammer wrote:
>> On Friday, 2012-03-23, O. Sinclair wrote:
>>> 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:
>>
>>>>>>> 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".
>>
>> Yes, he is.
>>
>>> Not quite mr. Average User but to me a developer.
>>
>> Being a developer doesn't mean you are not a just a user of a different
>> software, even if it comes from the same vendor.
>> Building that other software yourself might make you a more non
>> average user,
>> but then this would also be true for any non-developer building
>> themselves,
>> e.g. Gentoo users.
>>
>> A difference would have been if he had stated that he had checked the
>> code and
>> saw that said functionality was disabled, but he just stated an
>> assumption.
>>
>> If I am tracking down a solution for another user's question by trying
>> menu
>> options or settings that sound related than this is very different
>> than going
>> into the code and searching there.
>> And depending on the complexity of the code this might even be
>> different from
>> what a developer accustomed to the code can dig up.
>>
>> I wish being a developer would make me automatically all-knowing about
>> any
>> piece of software, alas it does not :-/
>>
>>> Though perhaps not of KDEPIM but I struggle to remember when anyone but
>>> Ingo Klöcker to active part on this list or other forums.
>>
>> I'd say from the last couple of days on this list at least also Andras
>> and
>> myself.
>> Not any other KMail developer though as far as I can tell.
>> Haven't checked the forum though.
>>
>
> my apologies to you Kevin if you are indeed a KDEPIM developer,
> something I had not noticed. Your signature states KDE Dev, but not
> specifically what parts.
>
> Obviously being a dev of another piece of KDE does not make you a guru
> of all the other bits and pieces but the comments he makes is the best
> clue I have seen so far as to why this function is gone.
>
> I will go a mile extra next week (slow internet at home) and
> download/install Kub Beta w 12.04 in a virtualbox machine, make a fresh
> KMail user and see if it then works. If it still does not work I can
> only consider it broken, at least in Kubuntu w KDE 4.8.1 and apparently
> OpenSuse w KDE 4.8.x
>

OK, today I downloaded Kubuntu 12.04 Beta with KDE 4.8.0 and installed 
in Virtualbox and I can confirm that autocompletion of email addresses 
from addresbooks do not work in that environment, "fresh out of the box 
new user". I was going to try Chakra too but it seems to have issues 
with Virtualbox.


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