KDE 4.8.1 showstopper - for me at least

[O. Sinclair]

On 23/03/12 11:58, O. Sinclair wrote:
> On 23/03/12 11:51, Myriam Schweingruber wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 10:39, Myriam
>> Schweingruber<myriam at kubuntu.org> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 10:27, O. Sinclair<o.sinclair at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> 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...
>>>
>>> Could you please provide a link to that forum thread? I can't find a
>>> post stating it was deliberately removed so far.
>>
>> Nevermind, found it: http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=215&t=100742
>>
>> /me wonders how they can ship that and then be astonished end-users
>> complain...
>>
>> Regards, Myriam
>>
> You are not the only one Myriam...
> http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=215&t=100742
>
> disabled - not removed. But effect for us users is the same
>
OK, today I downloaded Kubuntu 12.04 Beta with KDE 4.8.0 and installed 
in Virtualbox and I can confirm that autocompletion of email addresses 
from addresbooks do not work in that environment, "fresh out of the box 
new user". I was going to try Chakra too but it seems to have issues 
with Virtualbox.