KDE 4.8.1 showstopper - for me at least

O. Sinclair o.sinclair at gmail.com
Thu Mar 15 13:50:53 UTC 2012


On 15/03/12 15:19, Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa wrote:
> 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.
>
On reading that bug I find a lot about crashes but nothing about 
non-functioning address completion. Are you sure the bugs are related?

Sinclair




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