My experience with Kontact, Addressbook and Akonadi

[Valter Mura]

domenica 16 maggio 2010 stars at hispeed.ch ha scritto:

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> > > > First of all, I put the Akonadi tray in my System tray and I
> > > > start
> > 
> > Akonadi
> > 
> > > > from there. It gets me a warning regarding the outgoing
> > 
> > messages folder not
> > 
> > > > found, but I don't care, I suppose it checks
> > > > in .local/share/local-
> > 
> > mail and
> > 
> > > > Kmail currently uses another path and folder
> > 
> > (.kde/share/apps/ect, ect).
> > 
> > > And this has been solved pointing the Agent "Local folders" to the
> > 
> > folder
> > 
> > > where real mail is stored (.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail)
> > 
> > Would anyone from the Kubuntu team care to comment on how it is
> > acceptable to release something so utterly broken? I've just spent
> > the best part of a morning trying to get this stuff to work. In the
> > end I've just given up. I'll have to live without an address book - I
> > did get the addressbook to work by following this thread, but that
> > had the side effect of making Kopete lose all its account settings
> > every time I logged out. *sigh*.
> > 
> > Mark
> 
> Well first time i started my system i was blocked while it was
> impossible to use the addressbook, but in fact i think that is our
> mistake and not from devs, you just need to create your addressbook in
> akonadi and afrer all application worked fine and use it. Kmail,
> kopete, konqueror include. Maybe adding a notice that we need create
> this new addressbook can be a good things but i don't see as a defekt
> anyway.

And that's what I've done.
Maybe it should be useful to add a simple migration tool with all the 
requirements and explanation for a correct functioning (for "normal" users 
Akonadi report could be not sufficient)?

Regards,
-- 
Valter
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