omw kontact/akonadi/kde resource is broken

[Matthew Carpenter]

Binary package hint: kdepim

I have been trying to figure out how to make everything work right. Akonadi has broken my contacts, email, and even my desktop experience (making everything run excruciatingly slow).

This last go round I attempted to remove all address books from Kontact, rm -rf ~/.config/akonadi ~/.local/share/akonadi and start over. What ensued was a nightmare, with "resource" being the only thing I can use in sending emails instead of any added resources (Akonadi or otherwise). When I attempt to add an addressbook through Kontact I get a timeout on the backend. Addressbooks I add in Akonadi configuration I see in Kontact's address-book but not in Kmail.

Finally I ran across the documentation suggesting I make the change in KDE's System Settings -> KDE Resources area.
Why so many places to make changes? What's up with Kontact's Add Addressbook? I've been very frustrated and considered dumping Kontact for Evolution (which is nearly against my religion). I realize you mentioned the growing pains, but can we get this one knocked out? Kontact and KDE Resources need to play nice. Akonadi stuff should not show up in Kontact without being accessible in *all* of Kontact.

I really do appreciate all the work that the Kubuntu and KDE folks are doing, but I needed to share my angst. Sorry. Hopefully it can help make a better product. :)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: kontact 4:4.4.2-0ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jun 9 13:37:23 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: kdepim

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Hey Matthew. Can you please point the specific issue?

[Matthew Carpenter (matt-eisgr)]

The Akonadi configuration is strewn out over three different environments, any one or two of which could handle the complete configuration. If you are going to have *any* Akonadi config within Kontact. Have it open the one Akonadi tool which can configure it all. Don't have it hide stuff from Akonadi without it being obvious that it's hiding it.

Also, remove the magic and mystery behind where Contact information is coming from in Kontact. When I type in an email address, the autocomplete information should not list the sources/address-books which I do not have in the Contacts setup. I cannot tell you how frustrating it was trying to figure out where "resource" was and why it was the only thing showing up when filling in the email TO: headers.
Basically, please make the Contacts access more consistent so it makes sense why and when something isn't working. Finding hidden configuration pages after a month of troubleshooting is not success. I realize you guys are still working out the bugs in Akonadi's integration. This is an effort at helpful feedback.

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