Re: Akonadi woes

Am Donnerstag, 18. Februar 2010 14:09:01 schrieb Anne Wilson:
> On Thursday 18 February 2010 12:21:32 Guido Pinkernell wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, 18. Februar 2010 11:17:18 schrieb Anne Wilson:
> > > On Monday 15 February 2010 09:31:54 Ronny Standtke wrote:
> > > > OK, here is what I tried (see attachment New_Group.jpg)
> > > > File -> New -> New Group... (was disabled, no hint given why, does
> > > > anybody know the reason?)
> > > > 
> > > > Then I pressed very long on the "New Contact" button so that another
> > > > menu opens where you can select the menu entry "New Contact Group"
> > > > (see attachment New_Contact_Group.jpg).
> > > > In the "New Contact Group" dialog I wanted to drag&drop the relevant
> > > > contacts, but to my surprise it doesn't seem to work anymore. I had
> > > > to type in the contacts. After pressing "OK", the dialog "Select
> > > > Address Book" opened and presented ... an empty list (see attachment
> > > > Select_Address_Book.jpg).
> > > > 
> > > > What did I do wrong? How is creating a new contact group supposed to
> > > > work now?
> > > 
> > > This is in the Personal Contacts addressbook, managed by Akonadi.  Why
> > > you have New Group greyed out, I don't know.  It's fine here.
> > 
> > "New Group" is greyed out here too, in KDE 4.4 (from 1.1.2 opensuse
> > Factory). It is also greyed out in the context menu of the kontacts name
> > list. However, following the instructions above the "New Contact Group"
> > is not greyed out, but the dropdown list in the settings dialogue, which
> > apparently should show all address books ("add to"), is empty.
> > 
> > I think that causes all settings for a new contact group to disappear,
> > because there is no address book where they would be saved.
> 
> What addressbooks do you have set up?  It might help to know how you set
> them up, too. 

Well, I didn't. KDE did. After upgrading from 4.3 to 4.4, before starting 
kontact, some automatic routine ported my one addressbook over to akonadi. It 
took about 2 min, after which kontact started first time.

If you point me to specific setting informations I can tell you more.

Guido