Bug 285434

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.7.2) 
OS:                Linux

Starting ktimetracker in a virgin startup configuration gives a message "Could not create the KTimeTracker part" then an empty window.

But the bigger problem is that, if ktimetracker is installed, Kontact uses it, with disastruous effects, lowering considerably the user experience for Kontact as a whole. Even if ktimetracker is not installed, Kontact displays an icon offering time tracking but raises an error when trying to use it, to the effect that timetracker resource is absent/not installed. In some distributions, ktimetracker is NOT installed by default, even if kontact should require it.

As I said, when ktimetracker is used by kontact, clicking on the "Time tracking" icon brings up a resemblence of a function GUI, but trying to add a new task just brings forth the dialog for naming a new task but then raises the message "Error storing new task. Your changes were not saved. Make sure you can edit your iCalendar file. Also quit all applications using this file and remove any lock file related to its name from ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc/lock/".

One has to fiddle a lot around to realize that the problem is that ktimetracker is started in kontact without an open document. Opening a document manually brings back all the functionality that we expect. Creating a new  timetracking document with "New"  action (from menu or toolbar) is another way of rendering ktimetracker useable inside kontact. But clicking on the "New" action doesn't do anything visible, so it is difficult to realize that this was a necessary step.

Let's go back to the default state of ktimetracker in kontact at startup (seemingly active GUI but that doesn't do anything). In this state, invoking the action "Close" makes the GUI of ktimetracker vanish (it is replaced by an empty widget) but the search lineedit remains. Writing anything in this line edit or trying to create a new ktimetracker document using the action "New" crashes kontact.

Finally (but certainly not lastly, unfortunately), the menu merging is bungled. There are two "Quit" actions in the File menu when the timetracker part is active. This also makes the Ctrl+Q shortcut confused (says so if one tries to use it).

IMHO either ktimetracker is fixed or it is removed from kontact.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1) Start kontact when ktimetracker is not installed. You see icon for timetracking but there is no fonctionality available.

2) Start kontact with ktimetracker installed. Choose timetracker functionality. Try to add a task. An error message is raised (see above)

3) Start kontact. Choose timetracker functionality. Click on "Close" (red icon in toolbar). Type something in the remaining search lineedit => crash


4) Start kontact. Choose timetracker functionality. Click on "Close" (red icon in toolbar). Click on the "New document" action (or "New task") => crash

5) Start kontact. Choose timetracker functionality. Look at the "File" menu.


Actual Results:  
No functioning.
Crashes.
Bungled menus


Expected Results:  
Buckled up functioning of ktimetracker inside kontact (or even outside) or remove ktimetracker from kontact.