Configure phone call application in kaddressbook

[Rainer Dorsch]

...if I remove the lines with

x-scheme-handler/
tel=org.kde.kdeconnect.app.desktop;org.kde.kdeconnect.sms.desktop;arglogger.desktop;org.kde.kdeconnect.handler.desktop;
x-scheme-handler/tel=org.kde.kdeconnect.app.desktop;

from ~/.config/mimeapps.list with an editior, KDE connect gets called again.

Rainer


Am Freitag, 18. Juli 2025, 23:02:19 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit schrieb 
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-fo
> > r-> 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-fo
> > r
> > -phone-call/146469


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Rainer Dorsch
http://bokomoko.de/
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