[kdepim-users] address autocompletion gone missing in 4.10.2 - workaround found!

[O. Sinclair]

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On 07/04/2013 11:28, O. Sinclair wrote:
> On 07/04/2013 10:11, O. Sinclair wrote:
>> On 07/04/2013 07:02, O. Sinclair wrote:
>>> On 06/04/2013 23:58, Lindsay Mathieson wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 6 Apr 2013 03:44:43 PM O. Sinclair wrote:
>>>>> Upgraded to 4.10.2 and found that autocompletion of mail 
>>>>> receiver address went missing again in KMail...
>>>>> 
>>>>> Anyone else see this? Any idea how to get it back?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Am using Kubuntu 12.10 with all upgrades
> 
> 
>>>> Is the nepomuk feeder running?
> 
>>>> To check the status:
> 
>>>> sudo apt-get install akonadiconsole
> 
>>>> then start akonadiconsole (its a gui app) and check the 
>>>> "Akonadi Nepomuk Feeder". I suspect it will show either 
>>>> "Waiting for Nepomuk to start" or "Nepomuk not operational: 
>>>> Nepomuk is not running".
> 
>>>> Both statuses are a furphy, nepomuk is running but sometimes 
>>>> the feeder has a problem detecting this on startup. Restart 
>>>> the feeder to get it working (right click, Restart Agent).
> 
>>>> The feeder indexes the contacts collection and the index is 
>>>> used for auto completion
> 
> 
>>> Yes feeder is running, I know of the glitch since before. 
>>> Problem is that since 4.10.2 install it does not "do" anything 
>>> when I restart it. In 4.10.1 you could see some activity after 
>>> the restart, now it just says "indexing done" or "ready to
>>> index" but nothing happens.
> 
>>> And I have recreated it, recreated Personal Contacts and 
>>> removed/recreated HOME/.kde/share/apps/nepomuk
> 
> 
>> To add: Distribution Lists/Groups also stopped working as I 
>> suspected, this is somehow tied together with the
>> autocompletion.
> 
>> Frustrating is the word
> 
> 
> OK I found a workaround that I consider "not satisfactory" but it 
> makes things work again.
> 
> There is way to make KMail look in all Nepmuk data instead of where
> it is so to speak supposed to (explanation way to techie for me,
> maybe Lindsay can explain it).
> 
> In folder HOME/.kde/share/config there is a file 
> "kpimcompletionorder". Add these 2 lines: [General] 
> UseNepomuk=true
> 
> restart KMail and presto, completion works (you get more
> suggestions than before) and so does Groups
> 
> Whatever you do - do not set the value to "false", even Dolphin 
> stopped working for unknown reasons
> 
> As I said: this is a workaround, it is NOT how it is supposed to
> work and I will be most happy if someone can find a "proper"
> solution.
> 
> 

I just noted that "large" (48 contacts in this case) Groups make KMail
freeze with this workaround.. so very far from optimal
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