Re: KAdressBook problems
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Am Freitag, 18. Januar 2002 22:11 schrieb Jason Boxman:
> > However, the address management capabilities in KDE2 are...lets say...
> > simple. Almost all features that would make its use worthwhile are left
> > out.
>
> Can you give me some examples? I am in need of an address book and figured
> I'd use one of KDE's since I use KDE all day anyway. If any of these
> features render the address book critically broken, then it would be
> helpful to know up front so I don' waste time entering data I can't work
> with intelligently.
Another one to the other: you enter the birthday in kab but korganizer does
not care at all.So why the entry? If you remember to look into every (!)
entry, every day, you better remember the bithday itself.
Kmail displays the vcf in emails really nice but it is not able to insert it
into the kab database.
You also cannot import vcf files, yo you have to copy it by hand :-(
You can import KDE1 address books and ldif files but you cannot export them
(one way only). Actually there is not even an export option (or 'save as')
but in kaddressbook which only offers .csv (so it should have been called
'save as' instead). So kab is a dead end if you do not write a konvert app
csv2otherformat.
It does not know groups so there is only one big list. Multiple files are
also not really supported and complicated to handle. It can only open one fil
at a time. So, without opening kab multiple times and probably getting sync
problems when two apps write to the same text file(!), you cannot get groups
or any sane sorting.
You get the point?
abbrowser, kaddressbook and kab frontends could be merged to one app with
differnt display types. One nice additional display type would be a formatted
output like address formats common in countries.
But hey, it has a search option, probably because you really need that for
more than a few, non-grouped entries.
And I do not really complain about this status of kab because I do not use it
(hmm, or was it the other way round?).
HS
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