Bug 252145

Summary:	Akonadi should read MIME aliases when items are added (eg. text/x-vcard should map to text/directory)
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] Akonadi	Reporter:	Malte S. Stretz <mss>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Tobias Koenig <tokoe>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	dvratil, kdepim-bugs, riccardo, tijl, vkrause
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.4.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Malte S. Stretz 2010-09-23 15:31:52 UTC

Version:           1.4.0 (using KDE 4.5.1) 
OS:                Linux

Quoted mail from Akunambol's LikeBack system:

A developer responded on your LikeBack feedback message. This is the message
you sent us:

> This is what Akunambol did to a previously empty addressbook:
> http://bitdump.msquadrat.de/2010/akunambol-vcfs.png (might be an Akonadi
> bug?)

A developer, ruphy, set the status to closed (Solved), and wrote this message
to you:

> It looks like it was indeed an akonadi bug. I just pushed a commit to
> workaround this behiavour temporarily (on the 0.2.x branch): the problem
> was that akunambol sets the mimetype "x-vcard", instead of
> "text/directory". This behiavour should be correct, but kaddressbook
> doesn't recognize it (and this is the bug), and falls back on showing a
> default "id" instead of the name.
> Now, some people in Akonadi are working on fixing it, so you can expect
> to see your data again with newer kontact releases. I'll probably be
> making a 0.2.1.1 release soon that includes this workaround, including a
> little tutorial that teaches you how to "convert" your items to the
> "text/directory" mimetypes, by performing a non-destructive fully new
> sync.
> 
> Can you please open a bug on bugs.kde.org too, against akonadi? This
> would be really helpful to ensure that the bug is really fixed.
> 
> Thanks!

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Tobias Koenig 2010-09-25 15:07:27 UTC

Hej,

contact objects stored inside Akonadi have to use the text/directory mime type by definition. If some other app doesn't follow the standard I can't see how this should be a bug in Akonadi...

Ciao,
Tobias

Comment 2 Riccardo Iaconelli 2010-09-25 16:35:45 UTC

Hi,
apart for the fact that this is an undocumented behiavour (besides Addressee::mimeType() which -now- returns text/directory), I still think that this is a bug, and that's why:
 - The problem is, as diagnosticated by dfaure, that Akonadi doesn't resolve mimetype aliases correctly, by not using KMimeType.
 - x-vcard is an alias for text/directory, add this to the fact that what Akonadi stores *are* vcards, I think would just mean sanity to support "text/x-vcard". I also remember seeing it advertised as supported by the collection, at some point.
 - This is a regression over 4.4.

So I think that this bug is still to be considered valid, as confirmed in the #akonadi channel (not today, but when I asked for clues about it).

Comment 3 Riccardo Iaconelli 2010-09-29 10:29:07 UTC

Tobias, or other KDEPIM developers, would you please share your thoughts on whether you consider valid the reasons that I brought to consider this a bug?

I don't want to re-open it out of nothing, but please respond! :)

Comment 4 Malte S. Stretz 2010-10-13 13:52:48 UTC

I rephrased the subject and set this to wishlist.

Comment 5 Tijl Coosemans 2011-07-12 17:05:38 UTC

Perhaps related to bug 183026?

Comment 6 Daniel Vrátil 2018-08-27 21:58:30 UTC

This I think has been fixed by now.