Re: kontact addressbook on kmail imap

Am Montag, 11. Mai 2009 schrieb Ingo Klöcker:
> On Monday 11 May 2009, Andreas Petzold wrote:
> > >> 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.
> > >
> > > Did you also patch the global KMail.desktop or just your local
> > > copy?
> >
> > no, I didn't touch the global KMail.desktop and Kontact.desktop
> > files. Instead, I did put patched versions of both into
> > ~/.local/share/applications.
> >
> > I've now tried again with a patched global KMail.desktop
> > (commented out the X-KDE-ServiceTypes line) and it works! I don't
> > understand why this way it does work but doesn't work with my
> > local .desktop files.

Thanks Andreas for testing this out. I took this solution too and it 
works as expected.

>
> Your local .desktop files do not override/replace the global ones.
> They are just used additionally to the global ones. So the global
> ones defined KMail and Kontact as providers for service type
> DBUS/ResourceBackend/IMAP and your local ones defined Kontact
> (again) as provider for service type DBUS/ResourceBackend/IMAP.

Hm, so there must be found a method to switch from kmail to kontact or 
vice versa on user preference overwriting the system default settings.

Martin

>
>
> Regards,
> Ingo