Bug 410933 - "Tags" label is present, but inoperative
Summary: "Tags" label is present, but inoperative
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: kaddressbook
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 5.11.3
Platform: Neon Linux
: NOR minor
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdepim bugs
URL:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2019-08-15 13:10 UTC by David C. Bryant
Modified: 2019-08-16 15:45 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Attachments
Screenshot of the "Add New Contact" dialog from version 5.11.3 (newer) (55.90 KB, image/png)
2019-08-15 13:10 UTC, David C. Bryant
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Same dialog in release 5.7.3 (49.30 KB, image/png)
2019-08-15 17:58 UTC, David C. Bryant
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Screenshot from 2019-08-16 08-01-35.png (33.77 KB, image/png)
2019-08-16 13:19 UTC, David C. Bryant
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Screenshot from 2019-08-16 08-08-54.png (58.18 KB, image/png)
2019-08-16 13:19 UTC, David C. Bryant
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attachment-1930-0.html (3.62 KB, text/html)
2019-08-16 15:45 UTC, David C. Bryant
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Description David C. Bryant 2019-08-15 13:10:33 UTC
Created attachment 122135 [details]
Screenshot of the "Add New Contact" dialog from version 5.11.3 (newer)

SUMMARY

I'm writing new documentation for KAddressBook. I had been running an older version (5.7.3) under openSUSE LEAP 15.0, but recently bought a new PC, and put "Neon" in there. So now I have 5.11.3. I noticed a change that looks like an oversight to me.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Compare the screenshots I've attached to this bug report. I'll have to boot up my old system to retrieve the 5.7.3 screenshot, which will take a few hours.
2. You will see that the "Tags" GUI button was removed from the "Add New Contact" dialog (1st page), and a new field ("Blog Feed") has been added. But the label "Tags" remains.

OBSERVED RESULT
There's a label "Tags" in the dialog window that has no associated action.

EXPECTED RESULT
Either the GUI button and display field for "Tags" should be present or, if the "Tags functionality has been removed as superfluous, the label "Tags" should be deleted.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 
macOS: 
Linux/KDE Plasma: That's me! "Neon"
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.16.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.61.0
Qt Version: 5.12.3

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
See attachments (screenshots)
Comment 1 David C. Bryant 2019-08-15 17:58:09 UTC
Created attachment 122147 [details]
Same dialog in release 5.7.3

Here's the screenshot from the older version of KAddressBook. The "Tags" function used to actually do something!
Comment 2 Laurent Montel 2019-08-16 06:40:31 UTC
Please install kdepim-addons.
Comment 3 Laurent Montel 2019-08-16 06:53:27 UTC
No plugin is in akonadi-contact.
search "lib64/plugins/akonadi/contacts/plugins/categorieseditwidgetplugin.so"
So perhaps you have a problem about your install.
Comment 4 David C. Bryant 2019-08-16 12:28:35 UTC
On Friday, August 16, 2019 1:40:31 AM CDT you wrote:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=410933
> 
> Laurent Montel <montel@kde.org> changed:
> 
>            What    |Removed                     |Added
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> CC|                            |montel@kde.org
> 
> --- Comment #2 from Laurent Montel <montel@kde.org> ---
> Please install kdepim-addons.

OK. I'll try to make that happen. I installed KMail and KAddressBook using the 
"Neon" OS from KDE, and it didn't report any problems. I'll let you know what 
happens.

Thank you for responding so quickly. Merci beaucoup.  :)  dcb
Comment 5 David C. Bryant 2019-08-16 13:19:43 UTC
Created attachment 122173 [details]
Screenshot from 2019-08-16 08-01-35.png

On Friday, August 16, 2019 1:40:31 AM CDT you wrote:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=410933
> 
> Laurent Montel <montel@kde.org> changed:
> 
>            What    |Removed                     |Added
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> CC|                            |montel@kde.org
> 
> --- Comment #2 from Laurent Montel <montel@kde.org> ---
> Please install kdepim-addons.

OK, I did that. Here's what the installer said:

davidbryant@david-XPS-8930:~$ sudo apt install kdepim-addons
[sudo] password for davidbryant: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
kdepim-addons is already the newest version (19.04.3-0xneon+18.04+bionic+build37).
kdepim-addons set to manually installed.
Starting pkgProblemResolver with broken count: 0
Starting 2 pkgProblemResolver with broken count: 0
Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
davidbryant@david-XPS-8930:~$ 

So it looks as if my system is up to date with the repository. I tried to find the xxx.so plugin 
you mentioned  in your first email, but had no luck. I did find a bunch of akonadi plugins in a 
../qt5/... library, but the path was not even remotely similar to the one you mentioned.

I'll just plunge ahead with the documentation and avoid mentioning any bugs that I run into 
from now on. I just installed an older version (5.7.3) of KAddressBook on an Ubuntu 18.04.3 
box (which is the only version of Linux that seems to be relatively stable on my new 
computer), and it has the "bug" in it, whereas 5.7.3 installed under openSUSE LEAP 15.0 (my 
old, smaller, and  much slower machine) didn't. Here are a couple of pictures from the Ubuntu 
system.





So I guess the missing plugin, or whatever it is, has more to do with the "flavor" of Linux and 
less to do with the version of KAddressBook.

Thanks for the help, Laurent.  D. Bryant
Comment 6 David C. Bryant 2019-08-16 13:19:44 UTC
Created attachment 122174 [details]
Screenshot from 2019-08-16 08-08-54.png
Comment 7 Laurent Montel 2019-08-16 13:29:09 UTC
categorieseditwidgetplugin.so is generated by akonadi-contact.
So if you don't have it it's a problem on your distro.
Comment 8 David C. Bryant 2019-08-16 15:45:05 UTC
Created attachment 122181 [details]
attachment-1930-0.html

On Friday, August 16, 2019 8:29:09 AM CDT you wrote:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=410933
> 
> --- Comment #7 from Laurent Montel <montel@kde.org> ---
> categorieseditwidgetplugin.so is generated by akonadi-contact.
> So if you don't have it it's a problem on your distro.

Please help me understand. I know that KDE software gets re-packaged by different 
distributions (SUSE, Gentoo, Ubuntu, and many others).

After reading quite a bit of stuff, it looks to me as if the "Discover" software package 
manager and the "Neon" operating system were the nearest thing to an "official" early 
release of KDE software that exists. Am I wrong about that? (I understand that if I really 
want to keep up to date I need to compile / build programs from the source code. Maybe 
some day. Right now I just want to supply the missing documentation for KAddressBook.)

I'm about half-way through the process of writing "index.docbook". I can pretty easily 
work around little glitches in the software I actually work with. I guess I'll just write some 
documentation, and let others fix any problems they notice. I appreciate your assistance.