Hello,
I'm gearing up to use KDEPIM for advanced contact management, and have a few questions. Using KDE 3.5.3 over Debian Etch.
- In kontact, the icons down the left side: that space is way wider than the icons, and is taking up valuable space which could be used for emails. Any way to narrow that? The grab-bar refuses to reduce it below a given amount.
- In kaddressbook, the filters: It does not seem to be possible to 'negative filter' something. I can see how to positive filter so you see only items in a certain category, but how do I filter -out- only items in certain categories? For example, if I have a barnyard, with all the animals as categories, what if I want to see everything -except- the goats and emus?
- It would be nice to do a mail-merge from contacts in kaddressbook to a document in Writer or KWord, but this does not seem possible?
- Why, when you specify that kaddressbook contacts be stored as individual vcards, are these vcard names are stored as randomized digits, and not as some sort of permutation of the contact name? That seems like it would be so straightforward.
- Why, when I have only one addressbook checked in kaddressbook, and I want to select a recipient for an email, do only recently-created categories show up? Categories created a year ago (Friends, Family), simply do not show up.
Any input appreciated.
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Thanks Ingo.

Michel, you'd chosen the store format in a single file. I chose to store vcards for each individual contact in a directory. But it's starting to look like my choice was a mistake, as I like your idea for mailing list group vcard files.

Monday 07 August 2006 14:24, Quantum Scientific wrote:
- In kontact, the icons down the left side: that space is way wider than the icons, and is taking up valuable space which could be used for emails. Any way to narrow that? The grab-bar refuses to reduce it below a given amount.

As to this question, I now find that the icon column width will not reduce below the width of the longest word, in this case the "Synchronization" icon. I looked for the word "Synchronization" in KDEPIM config files so I could abbreviate it, but I can't find it. Any idea where this is?

Anyone know the answer to the following questions:
- In kaddressbook, the filters: It does not seem to be possible to 'negative filter' something. I can see how to positive filter so you see only items in a certain category, but how do I filter -out- only items in certain categories? For example, if I have a barnyard, with all the animals as categories, what if I want to see everything -except- the goats and emus?
- Why, when I have only one addressbook checked in kaddressbook, and I want to select a recipient for an email, do only recently-created categories show up? Categories created a year ago (Friends, Family), simply do not show up.

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Am Dienstag, 8. August 2006 11:13 schrieb Ingo Kcker:
- It would be nice to do a mail-merge from contacts in kaddressbook
to a document in Writer or KWord, but this does not seem
possible?

[]

As for I think at least the SUSE version has support for
this.

I can confirm this. Running 2.0.2 out of SuSE 9.3 there is a wizard
("Assistent"). Go to in Files>Wizards>Adress-Database and you are able to
configure the KDE-adressbook as a database resource.

SuSE provides a rpm-package called , which contains a file
"libkabdrv1.so". I suppose this provides the functionality.

Regards,
Thomas Hejze

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Tuesday 08 August 2006 9:22, Ingo K wrote:
I think it's taken from the file multisynk.desktop. Here it's
in / Copy this file
to ~/.kde/share/services/kontact/, open it in your favorite text
editor, look for Name=Synchronization and change that. I haven't
checked whether this will really work.

Right again, thanks Ingo. It does work. In Debian it's in / .

Although, when running KDE above version 3.5, we're not supposed to use Multisync or Kitchensync anymore, so this service should probably be deleted. Supposed to use SynCE konnector, although I can't make that work either another story. After my best efforts, Kitchensync, Multisync,and SynCE are all busted. SynCE may be fixable, if I had days to troubleshoot and repair it. Sure wish it worked.

Go to Settings->Edit Filters. Click on Add. Give the filter a name,
say "No goats or emus". Mark Goats and Emus. Enable "Show all contacts
except those matching []".

KAddressBook automatically adds filters for categories, but for anything
else you'll have to create your own filters.

Thank you. Now that it looks like KDEPIM is going to work out, it's time to RTFM.

- Why, when I have only one addressbook checked in kaddressbook,
and I want to select a recipient for an email, do only
recently-created categories show up? Categories created a year ago
(Friends, Family), simply do not show up.

That's probably a bug. Does any contact in the used address book
actually belong to one of those categories?

Yes. Those categories which actually show up, show their proper contacts. But oddly, the name of a new addressbook is there along with the newer categories, and the name of my older addressbook is not, nor are my older categories.

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