'Re: [kdepim-users] simple question about how to manage'

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List:       kdepim-users
Subject:    Re: [kdepim-users] simple question about how to manage
From:       Graeme Nichols <gnichols () tpg ! com ! au>
Date:       2008-01-05 2:22:51
Message-ID: 477EE9FB.2060903 () tpg ! com ! au
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E. Hakan Duran wrote:
> On Thursday 03 January 2008 19:44:16 Robert Smits wrote:
>> As you will see from my note to Anne, I can find all the lists in the kabc
>> directory.
> 
> There is definitely a distribution dependent component here. My address book 
> doesn't even have a New > Distribution List  option as Graeme states (It is 
> Hakan by the way, not Haken ;)). All it has is a New Contact option under 
> File menu. Needless to say, there is no New Distribution List icon in the 
> toolbar, either. It doesn't matter, as long as it doesn't work anyway :).

Hello Hakan, my apologies for mis-spelling your name.
> 
>> And I'm using KONTACT 1.2.4 with KDE 3.5.7 release 72.2., which is Kmail
>> 1.9.6. Can you backlevel to Kmail 1.9.6 and see if the problem is still
>> there or does someone have an earlier version on Mandriva?
> 
> This is a though one. I would be more than happy to do that, but I am not a 
> linux guru, and I don't know how to undo things if I mess them up during 
> compilation of kmail. I guess I can install it from the rpm package, but the 
> packages are named as kdepim-kmail-3.5.7-16mdv, etc. Therefore there is no 
> direct indication of kmail version in their names. Long story short, I am 
> hesitant to do this since I don't know if I can completely undo the changes.
> 
> Graeme, can you see the distribution list you created via the address book in 
> the "distlists" file or among the list of contacts when you push the Select 
> button from kmail?

Yes. If I select 'All' it shows up in its alphabetic order and has a 
blue & green pawn shaped icon (Normal contact entries only have the blue 
pawn shaped icon). If I the select 'Distribution List' it shows up there 
on its own (I only have one distribution list).

If I bring up Kaddressbook on its own my Distribution List *does not* 
show up *unless* I have the 'Settings' --> 'Show Extension' --> 
Distribution List Editor' box with a cross in it. The distribution list 
*does not* show up among the normal contacts. This, however, is not a 
show stopper as I always select my recipient from the select button in 
the Kmail composer and I created my distribution list in the 
distribution list editor. I *cannot* create a distribution list from the 
Contacts editor.

Another feature that doesn't appear to work on my install is the 'Store 
Contact In' button (like a blue telephone handset) on the tool bar. 
Clicking on it appears to do absolutely nothing. I would expect it to 
bring up a drop down list or something so I could select where I wanted 
to store the contact. This may be because I do not fully understand 
Kaddressbook. The help file for Kaddressbook comes up OK but informs me 
that the help has not yet been written :-) and that statement is 'true' :-)

There is quite clearly some annoying bugs, sorry, features, in Kmail and 
Kaddressbook but they can be worked around on my F8 system.

-- 
Kind regards,

Graeme Nichols.
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