Where do I find the UI in KAddressBook to set the default flag of an Identity? (see https://lxr.kde.org/source/kde/pim/kide ... y.cpp#0373 for what I mean)? This question came up during the analysis of this bug entry. Any help on the bug itself is also appreciated.

ipwizard wrote:Where do I find the UI in KAddressBook to set the default flag of an Identity?

I found a place (on LXR) where setIsDefault() is used in identity management of KMail.
Are you sure KMymoney don't read the identities from ~/.conig/emailidentities ?

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[General]
Default Identity=1854493280

[Identity #0]
...
Email Address=joh.doe@example.net
Identity=John Doe
...
uoid=1854493280


Can anyone say what tools or applications write to ~/.config/emailidentities? I do not use KMail, and although I suppose I could manually edit that file, I'd rather use the proper tool, but do not want to be forced to use a particular email app just for that purpose.

It's just a text file with a certain layout to it, but is otherwise pretty straight-forward to read and edit (if you are just rearranging things or making the changes suggested by raphaelra). If you are concerned about messing it up you can make a backup copy (copy to the same directory but add ".bak" to the end of the file name or something to indicate that it is a backup) so that if you do mess something up you have a good copy you can revert to.

Otherwise, you can edit it from Kmail via Settings -> Configure Kmail -> Identities. (I'm not sure if there are other apps which can edit it).

I know I can edit the file directly, but I specifically said I do not have KMail installed, and would prefer to use a more "official" application. I have been unable to find any documentation at all on this file. It is used not only for KMail, but for other applications (e.g., KMyMoney) to pick the addressbook record for the user's credentials. I know in KDE KMail is the default email app, but I don't think it should be required. Also, not all users are willing to manually edit a configuration file like this, and I'd like to update the KMyMoney manual on how a user can properly set the default addressbook record, if KMail is not installed.

I started

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inotifywait -m ~/.config/emailidentities

and try to change my user data in system settings. No access. I don't use KMyMoney. Are you sure that KMyMoney gets the default identity from address book ? ipwizard means, KMyMoney reads the data from KAddressBook ...

raphaelra wrote:ipwizard means, KMyMoney reads the data from KAddressBook ...

He meant that KMyMoney uses the KAddressBook library (as it was called in older - aka KDE4 - times). The relevant part has been extracted from the KAddressBook libs and is nowadays available as KIdentityManagement. Sorry if that has caused any confusion.

Thanks for clarification Although I use KDE for many years I'm just start developing and I'm still newbe in the KDE souce code universe ...

I use KDE since many moons (was it 2.0?) and develop using it for a similar time span, but in some areas I am a newbie myself and learn on a daily basis

Ah - I now suspect that this has nothing at all to do with KAddressBook or any single addressboook. I'll have to find which package in my distros deals with identity management for KDE. Pehaps there will be some useful comments in the code. (And I suppose I'll have to look in the KMail code also.) Obviously this will call for a revision of that section of the Manual, once I figure out what is happening - especially for people not using the full KDE suite.