Configure phone call application in kaddressbook

[Rainer Dorsch]

Hi Jan,

thanks for following up.

System Settings is a good hint. I just click on the phone number. After I 
changed the System Settings for the phone standard app, I get the same error 
message as you though. Even if I change the app back to kde connect. Not sure 
how I can revert this setting :-/

Other then setting the app, the phone number needs to be handed over. I 
previous verisons of kaddressbook, it was sufficient to tell kaddressbook to 
call

Linphone-6.0.0-CallEdition-x86_64.AppImage call %N 

I am running Debian trixie.

Thanks
Rainer


Am Freitag, 18. Juli 2025, 15:02:10 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit schrieb 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
> 
> 
> --------
> [1]
> https://forums.opensuse.org/t/kdeconnect-as-default-app-in-kaddressbook-for
> -phone-call/146469


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Rainer Dorsch
http://bokomoko.de/
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