Bug 283148

Summary:	None of my address book entries show up since the migration to KDE 4.7 / akondi
Product:	[Applications] kaddressbook	Reporter:	Tom Chiverton <bugs.kde.org>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	anderslund, mollekopf, tokoe
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Tom Chiverton 2011-10-01 17:28:15 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.7.1) 
OS:                Linux

I happen to have both file and directory based address books, and since the migration, none of them list contents.

If I re-add the directory directly in Kaddressbook and then right click and choose 'folder properties' it lists '18 objects' and a few K in size, but clicking it does not list anyone in the middle pane.

Kmail address auto-completion therefore doesn't work

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
try to see my addressbook

Actual Results:  
no one there

Expected Results:  
everyone there

OS: Linux (i686) release 3.0.0-12-generic
Compiler: gcc

Comment 1 Tom Chiverton 2011-10-02 12:33:46 UTC

There appears to be an almost unnoticeable tick box next to the name of the addressbook, ticking this makes the content show up, but I still don't have auto complete in KMail.

Comment 2 Anders Lund 2012-02-01 19:43:55 UTC

Please make sure nepomuk is running. 
There are problems with autocompletion in kmail composer KDE 4.8, but if you are using KDE 4.7 it should work afaik.

Comment 3 Tom Chiverton 2012-02-03 19:07:24 UTC

*Nepomuk* ? Why do I need 100meg of SQL server just to do autocomplete ?!?

Comment 4 Anders Lund 2012-02-03 19:41:25 UTC

Nepomuk facilitates quite a bit more than autocompletion (aka the semantic desktop). In KDE we like that functionality and and integration, so we build on tools for that - and use them. 

An eksample of how you benefit from the address book is utilized through nepomuk is entering a contact name in krunner (with the nepomuk plugin enabled): Apart from the offer to mail or conntact that person, you also get a list of mails to and from him, and documents or files related to him will show up. Nepomuk could also be used to store relations between contacts, for example familiy relations, in a very organized way. There are tons of possibilities.

Nepomuk also does not harm you, as long as it runs quietly in the background.

Comment 5 Tom Chiverton 2012-02-03 21:50:07 UTC

I don't need or want any of the (other) features it provides. 
It does harm me, because it sucks battery, CPU and RAM on my laptop.

Comment 6 Christian Mollekopf 2013-01-31 12:31:56 UTC

AFAIK there's a fallback by now for non-nepomuk users.