KDE 4.8.1 showstopper - for me at least

[Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 9:20 AM, O. Sinclair <o.sinclair at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

Sorry, answered to wrong message.. I should have answered to
ensane94 at gmail.com, about the crash and all.  I'm using 4.8.1.

And yes: address book seems to be broken for now (It won't
automatically complete addresses from address books).

Ildefonso.