On 22/04/2012 15:15, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I'm trying to make sense of the setup in kdepim-4.8.2-1.fc16.i686. > > I can say at once that this facility is in a terrible mess, > The documentation is either non-existent (KAddressBook), > out-of-date (<http://userbase.kde.org/KAddressBook>), > or utterly confused and confusing (The Kontact Handbook). > > The best place to start seems to be f=>System Settings=>Personal > Information. > Clicking on this lists a number of Akonadi "resources". > > I have 4 entries here which seem to be relevant to my present purpose: > Address Book > Personal Contacts > LDAP Address Book > akonadi_googledata_resource_0 > > Let me call these my four Contact Lists. > On highlighting any of the first three, and clicking on Modify, > I get some information about the entry. > Address Book points to ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf > Personal Contacts points to ~/.local/share/contacts/ > LDAP Address Book points to the OpenLDAP database on my server > akonadi_googledata_resource_0 points to my Google email address. > > Now I've left System Settings, and gone to f=>Office=>Personal Information > Manager. > (I can get to the same place in many ways.) > My 4 Contact Lists appear, together with a Search folder, > which I shall ignore for the moment. > > I've highlighted Address Book, which is empty at the moment, > and added a New Contact, "Anne Murphy", > and a New Group, "Knapton Court Residents Association". > Checking, I see that the contact is indeed added to > ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf > The group appears in the file ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc/distlists > > However, I can see no way to add the contact to the group. > > According to <http://userbase.kde.org/KAddressBook> > ------------------------------- > Groups will replace Distribution Lists. > Auto completion makes it quite easy to add entries to the group. > In KDE SC <= 4.4.2 you can't use the group quite like a distribution list, > typing the name and expecting it to be expanded into a list of names. > You can, though, copy and paste the list of names from the right-hand panel. > ------------------------------- > I don't really understand what this means, > but I don't see any way of associating or adding a contact > to a group. > As you can tell from the version number, that was a workaround written a long time ago. To add an address you should be able to click on the empty space in the Group popup and paste in addresses - when completion is working again in 4.9 that will be easier. Anne _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
