Adressbook in KDE4

atordo · 2010-05-29 15:54:17

Anyone knows how to access it?

There's a menu entry in Kmail, but it's greyed and it's not selectable.If I right clck in an address I can edit it, but how to access the addressbook itself or manage lists?

The official help remits to Kontact, but I have'nt been able to found the addressbook in that stinky piece of shit either.

On a side note just for my personal relief, every passing day I find a new reason to curse the day I "upgraded" to KDE4.

toxygen · 2010-05-29 17:58:22

if it's grayed out, it might not be installed, do you have kdepim-kaddressbook installed?

toad · 2010-05-29 18:14:13

Hm, never had a problem with kaddressbook bar akonadi. Fancy showing a screenshot if toxygen's suggestion doesn't work?

atordo · 2010-05-29 18:42:20

O my. I publicly flagellate myself for my obvious idiocy. You were right, kdepim-kaddressbook was not installed.

On my untenable defence I must add that it was not a separate package before, and that Kmail was completing the addresses and allowing editing (albeit individually).

Thank you both. On the grim side, all my lists seem to have converted to some kind of base64 garbage, but at least I'm able to edit them.

toad · 2010-05-29 18:52:39

Hehe.

It is some time ago that KDE packages were separated - and a good thing, too Was it KDE4.2 when meta packages were phased out? Can't remember...

toxygen · 2010-05-29 18:57:10

I love the meta packages, install kdepim, then remove unwanted packages, that way you get the dependencies you need. doing it the opposite way left me installing dependencies at odd times. I believe the split was during kde 4.2, though I first jumped to kde 4 when 4.3 was released and it was already split.

Last edited by toxygen (2010-05-29 18:57:44)

atordo · 2010-05-30 12:05:49

I updated to KDE4 recently. I noticed the package split and tried to replicate what I had with KDE3, but obviously I missed some packages.

Can't say I'm happy with the upgrade, but that's a matter for another thread (or many, I'm afraid).

And I also like the package split, even if it submits me to public embarrassment.

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Adressbook in KDE4

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