Bug 251903

Summary: KDE upgrade replaces the preferred dialer
Product: [Applications] kaddressbook Reporter: Christopher Yeleighton <giecrilj>
Component: generalAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: minor CC: tokoe
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
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Description Christopher Yeleighton 2010-09-21 11:10:12 UTC 
Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.4.4) 
OS:                Linux

KDE upgrade ignores the dialer selected by the user, replacing it with Skype.  The previous setting is lost.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. 
Tell KAddressBook to make a phone call.

Actual Results:  
1.
skype not found

Expected Results:  
1.
Use the previously selected dialer (as of 4.3.5) to make the call.

OS: Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.34.7-0.2-desktop
Compiler: gcc
Comment 1 Tobias Koenig 2010-10-17 15:43:42 UTC 
Hej,

KAddressBook in 4.4 is a complete reimplementation of the application. The part that dials a number is a separated component with its own configuration file now. So we don't have a migration path for this and highly probably won't offer one because being short of resources.

Sorry for the inconveniences

Ciao,
Tobias
Comment 2 Christopher Yeleighton 2010-10-18 08:56:29 UTC 
Frankly, I do not understand the logic behind this resolution.  KDE, being an open source project, has potentially unlimited resources, doesn’t it?  At least, that is what the advertising materials say…
Comment 3 Tobias Koenig 2010-10-18 12:11:04 UTC 
Hej Christopher,

I think this is a general misconception, Open Source projects have only as much resources as people volunteer to help. And unfortunately during the last years I have the feeling more and more people only want to use software instead of helping to improve them... sad but true.

Ciao,
Tobias