Re: Viewing Contacts

On Friday 12 December 2008 12:32:41 Keith Cowling wrote:
> I'm a newcomer to both KDE and Linux so I'm having a bit of trouble
> getting my head around what these 'resources' actually are.  I'm used to
> having my address book on my old Psion, for example, on which you just
> load a flat card database into the 'Data' module and can therefore have
> any number of data files including multiple address books, music
> records, recipes, book titles, etc on different files.  But these
> resources don't seem to be files.  

the standard resources are in fact files, just look at your 
~/.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf - this is your addressbook, you can open it 
with a text editor.

> They all seem to have the same
> information and if I load one of them and try to customise it the
> changes subsequently appear on all the others.   

that is because you probably have activated 2 ressources, both referring to 
the same file (see above).

> Should I just delete
> them all except the main 'file address book' resource' 

you can't delete them in the contacts resources pane, just disable one, that 
should do the trick.

> and, if so, is
> there any way to load different address book files into Contacts?

I'm not sure if this is possible with the ancient kde (3.4.x ?) that comes 
with the eeepc, later versions can do that, and much more (such as use 
resources from ldap servers or other network based services etc...)
just fiddle a bit around with the 'add ressource' feature.

werner