KDE 4.8.1 showstopper - for me at least

[Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa]

Hi all!

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 4:15 AM, O. Sinclair <o.sinclair at gmail.com> 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...

Yes, it is a general bug, at last, solved:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=295474

I patched my kdelibs with that patch: and the problem went away.

People at kubuntu: can you produce an updated kdelibs package with the
patch included? or should we wait for 4.8.1.

Applying the patch is simple for anyone with experience building
debian/ubuntu packages.

Ildefonso.