On Tuesday 09 March 2010 20:12:09 Alex Schuster wrote: > Alex Schuster wrote: > > Alex Schuster writes: > > > Now I'm going to emerge KDE-4.4.1, let's see what this will change. > > > > Nothing I notice. At least things have not gone worse:) > > But still they are not well. But you can safely ignore this if you don't > have KDE4 or are not interested in reading how things do not work, and how > I still use them. I have no good explanation for this, probably I keep > using KDE4 because it is so new and shiny, because I think that the time > must come when things actually DO work, and because I so not like to > switch to something else. There was never a time when ALL was working > fine, but at the moment I am even more disappointed then I used to be. > > - Kontact. The old address book I had imported fro KDE 3.5 half a year ago > showed one "address book" and many std.vcf (or similar) files, with my > data scattered on them. I moved all stuff into the "address book", and did > not use it for a while > Now I wanted to do so, but it did not run due to an error with akonadi.
Did you try to create a local resource using your systemsettings and point it to the local KDE3.5 contacts file? If you restart the address book, then akonadi will kick in a carry out the migration - if it does not succeed it will tell you so. In that case you may need to fix things manually (I've posted how in an older thread of mine, where I managed to make akonadi to succeed in its migration from a local resource file using sqlite - I don't have mysql in this box. Let me know if you can't find it.) > I > tried to figure out what this was, and how to get the error message in > English, but then I found out that I only have to restart kontact. Fine, > now I want to add a contact. First, when I want to edit the location, the > country is set to Afghanistan, I always have to change this to Germany. > Annoying, why is this so, who would want this behaviour, except for > Afghans perhaps. Have you tried to set up your locale in systemsettings to Germany? > But it does not matter much, as I cannot store the data: > when I press the OK button, I get a dialog where I should select the > address book to store the data in, but the list is empty. Great. I tried > adding a new address book, now I have two entries called "address book" > and one called "personal contacts", still I cannot add an entry. Try to get akonadi to complete its migration, or I think what you're trying to do will not work. > - Dolphin can do FTP, but I have to repeat the login process several times > until I see the destination files. I've also noticed an error when I try to connect with ftp saying that the connection failed, but then if I click on reload it connects fine. > - I just tried to listen to a CD, but KsCD does not find it. The eject > button ejects, but does not close the tray if pressed again. Okay. I just > thought I could play CDs with KDE. Can you? Yes, although KsCD looks and feels pretty clunky. > - And I am currently editing a page in my wiki with konqueror, but after > the dialog appeared that I should save the edits, it sort of hangs. I can > reload the page, but cannot edit any more. The good thing is that I did > not edit that much yet. Which is also a bad thing, because when editing > longer parts I cop the text to the clipboard from time to time, just in > case something crashes. I'm doing this with this mail, too. > Hmm, looks like konqueror is still working just as usual, it's just it > does no display updates at all. It's the first time it happened, but as it > just happened while I was writing this rant, I thought I'd include it. Haven't noticed this. > - Of course, Amarok keeps doing weird things. At least I can play music > from my collection. But playing a stream sometimes crashes it. And > dragging files into Amarok always leads to a crash. Yeah, I know, Amarok > is not KDE. Given up on that long ago (and sadly have not found a nice replacement which won't pull in the whole of Gnome or worse) > But at least one bug was fixed, I got a mail from bugzilla about this > today. It's the bug that makes password dialogs not work if the password > is to be displayed as three bullets. Wow, nearly two months after it had > been reported, this serious bug was at least confirmed to exist and is > fixed now. Maybe this bug happens seldomly, but when it happens, much of > KDE4 is unusable, as you have no kmail, no kwallet, nothing that needs a > password works. Hmm ... no such problem over here. > Dale, you brave, brave man, are you really using KDE4 now? > > Wonko > -- Regards, Mick
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