KDE 4.8.1 showstopper - for me at least

[O. Sinclair]

On 15/03/12 11:34, O. Sinclair wrote:
> 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 KDE 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
>

well well, on forums.kde.org a developer claims that this was 
deliberately removed to "complete transfer to Akonadi" but is back in 
"trunk". But will not be back in main code until 4.9...

which means 4.8.x is a no-go area for me at least. And so will 12.04 be 
until I see that KDE 4.9 is released and backported