Re: kontact addressbook on kmail imap

Hi Ingo and Martin,

Quoting Ingo Klöcker <[email protected]>:

> On Saturday 18 April 2009, Martin (KDE) wrote:
>> Am Freitag, 17. April 2009 schrieb Ingo Klöcker:
>> > On Friday 17 April 2009, Martin (KDE) wrote:
>> > > Hallo there
>> > >
>> > > every now and then I try to use my addressbook on my imap server.
>> > > int the old KDE3 days there were major problems with german
>> > > umlauts, so I delyed the use. Now I tried it again.
>> > >
>> > > Usually I let my kontact start automatically at login on my first
>> > > desktop. Without selected imap resources this works as expected.
>> > > With imap addressbook resource kmail is started as single
>> > > seperate application before kontact. If I click on the
>> > > corresponding mail icon within kontact the seperate kmail
>> > > instance is shown.
>> > >
>> > > If I terminate (ctrl-q) the kmail instance an click on kontacts
>> > > mail icon the embeded kmail instance is startet.
>> > >
>> > > Is there something I can config, that avoids starting the
>> > > seperate kmail instance?
>> >
>> > In KDE 3 both, KMail and Kontact, installed desktop files (KMail:
>> > dcopimap.desktop and dcopmail.desktop; Kontact:
>> > kontactdcop.desktop) which added KMail/Kontact as provider for the
>> > ServiceTypes DCOP/ResourceBackend/IMAP and DCOP/Mailer. I think the
>> > former ServiceType is used by the IMAP resource.
>> >
>> > In KDE 4 D-Bus replaced DCOP, but there are probably still similar
>> > desktop files. Deleting the desktop files belonging to KMail should
>> > fix your problem. FWIW, I deleted kontactdcop.desktop because I
>> > wanted the opposite behavior.
>>
>> I found KMail.desktop which defines a ServiceType
>> DBUS/ResourceBackend/IMAP but no other program defines such a
>> service. The service itself is defined in dbusimap.desktop but there
>> is no application defined that uses this service.
>>
>> It seems to me, that the definition of services and their provider
>> now is the other way round. Ther is one service definition and the
>> provider are defined by the application desctop files.
>>
>> I try to hack the kontact desktop file and check if that changes
>> anything. If I add this desktop file to my home .kde directory this
>> new one is used instead of the system wide right? Where do I have to
>> add the KMail.desktop file to my local .kde directory? My fedora box
>> uses it under /usr/share/applications/kde4
>
> AFAIK, nowadays, user desktop files should be stored in ~/.local/share.
> Desktop files stored in ~/.local/share are preferred over global
> desktop files.
>

I'm not able to force the desired behaviour (kontact being started  
instead of kmail) by modifying the .desktop files and putting them in  
~/.local/share/applications.

My personal Kontact.desktop file now contains

X-KDE-ServiceTypes=DBUS/ResourceBackend/IMAP,DBUS/Mailer

while I've deleted this line from KMail.desktop. Still, KMail starts  
seperately when my session is restored.

Any suggestions are appreciated.

Cheers,

Andreas