Configure phone call application in kaddressbook

[Jan Neuhäußer]

Hello Rainer,

never thought about, there could be such a fuctionality (initiating a phone call, out of kaddressbook), but that sounds very interesting for me. 

So I started investigating:


Am Donnerstag, 17. Juli 2025, 19:12:10 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit schrieb Rainer Dorsch:
> Hello,
> 
> can somebody tell if it is in kaddressbook version 6.3.3 (24.12.3) still 
> possible to configure which application is used to do a phone call?
> 
> I would like to use linphone, but on my system it seems it tries to use the 
> phones which are connected to kde-connect.

In an opensuse forum I found the following thread, the question there was how to change from skype to kdeconnect, very similar to your problem:

https://forums.opensuse.org/t/kdeconnect-as-default-app-in-kaddressbook-for-phone-call/146469[1]

The proposed solution is to change settings in ~/.config/mimeapps.list.

As an example the output of a grep command is given:

<snip>
>$ grep -P '(skype|kdeconnect)' ~/.config/mimeapps.list  
x-scheme-handler/callto=**skype**forlinux.desktop 
x-scheme-handler/**skype**=**skype**forlinux.desktop 
x-scheme-handler/tel=org.kde.**kdeconnect**.handler.desktop

</snip>
I think the important entry is the one for the tel-protocol

But perhaps changing the standard app for phone number in system settings already solves your problem.

> 
> Many thanks
> Rainer
> 

An additional question to Rainer:

Im using the same version of kaddressbook as you: 6.3.3 (24.12.3).

How do you start a phone call? When I click on a phone number I get an error message from KIOexec, saying "unknown protocol 'tel'". And indeed, there seem to be no KIO-module for this protocol, at least on my notebook.


Kind regards,
Jan


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[1] https://forums.opensuse.org/t/kdeconnect-as-default-app-in-kaddressbook-for-phone-call/146469
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