Re: kontact addressbook on kmail imap

Am Sonntag, 10. Mai 2009 schrieb Andreas Petzold:
> 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.

As am I. Currently I follow Ingos advice and use kmail only. Sadly I 
don't have that much time to go deeper in this topic. Next month there 
will be more time left (I hope).

>
> 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

Martin