KDE 4.8.1 showstopper - for me at least

[O. Sinclair]

On 15/03/12 11:10, ensane94 at gmail.com wrote:
> Dear Mr. Sinclair,
>
> The bug that you have explain is not a kmail bug but unfortunally is an
> OS bug. We will try to resolve this problem...but you can try to use a
> stable mod of kubuntu ( 11.10 ).
> Personally kmail never crash in my kubuntu 11.10.
>
> So, we will work about this bug. Thanks for contuct us.
>
> Bye, Mirko.
>
> Inviato da HTC
>
> ----- Reply message -----
> Da: "Mark Greenwood" <fatgerman at gmail.com>
> A: "Kubuntu user technical support" <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Oggetto: KDE 4.8.1 showstopper - for me at least
> Data: gio, mar 15, 2012 09:49
>
>
>
> On 15 Mar 2012, at 08:45, O. Sinclair wrote:
>
>  > For starters I use Kontact/KMail and the bug in question is related
> to that - so if you are not you may not be interested.
>  >
>  > In short - I have tried 4.8.1 on stable 11.10 and beta 12.04 Kubuntu.
> In both cases I can not get KMail and KAddressbook to function together.
>  >
>  > On writing a new email I type the first letters of an email address
> in the "To" (or CC, BCC etc) field - "recent addresses" will come up
> with suggestions but not Personal Contacts or ANY addressbook (vcard
> etc) that I have tried. Distribution lists do not work, even if chosen
> via the "select" button next the address field.
>  >
>  > I would LOVE to have confirmed if this is a general bug or if someone
> else has it working - in which case I have to find out how. If not I am
> on 4.7.4 until I hear that this works...
>  >
>  > Best,
>  > Sinclair
>
> I can only confirm that I have similar behaviour, although I did a great
> deal of messing around with creating new address books in various ways
> and now when I type into the 'To' field, everything crashes.
>
> :( Not good.
>
> Mark
>

I AM using 11.10 w 4.7.4 and will do so until I hear this is solved - or 
if I hear it works on other distros I might actually swap distro as this 
is very important function to me.

IF it is Kubuntu-related I sure hope it is fixed before LTS 12.04 release

Best
Sinclair