-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/04/12 10:48, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Kevin Kofler wrote: > >> As for the "Kolab client", it's basically the same thing as >> Kontact, which we already ship in kdepim. (And yes, the latest >> Kolab client is also the Akonadi-based Kontact, though they do >> have a branch based on the old pre- Akonadi Kontact and even a >> KDE 3 branch too, which are maintained to some extent, for their >> enterprise customers.) > > OK, thanks. I'll look again at Kontact, and see if it is possible > (in a relatively easy way) to use with contacts on a remote > server. > > This seems to me such an obvious need that I am surprised it does > not get top priority in Fedora/KDE. I think I can say that if it is > possible to do this in Fedora/KDE then it is certainly not obvious, > or well-documented if documented at all. > > Currently I use an ugly mixture of openLDAP and Google contacts to > make contacts available on my home network (including smart > phones). But one of the problems with this is that there seems to > be no direct way of adding contacts from within KMail or > KAddressBook. > > Bizarrely, I can access my openLDAP contacts in KMail, but don't > seem able to in Kontact or KAddressBook. (The Search facility in > both the latter is extraordinarily bad.) > > Maybe something like phpMyAdmin or phpLDAPadmin to access and edit > contacts on a server would be nice. > AddressBook used to be possible on a server - I used it as such - then about 3 years ago, IIRC, we were told that it is no longer possible. What I never discovered was the reason for that. It might help a reasoned discussion if we were told the issues that influence this. Anne -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk97QPoACgkQj93fyh4cnBceoQCeJrs8KEaaIL+6JBel0xGVLoDP CugAn2BgOX/s6k5BbVqYH3iKgt+Qv+JS =TyVI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
