Hello,

i have a few questions about kontact and akonadi (especially korganizer).

On OpenSUSE the resource migration is starting after installing KDE 4.3. This was the same here on KDE 4.2. But the resources are not activated in KDE. Kontact and systemsettings are showing just the same local vCalender/vCard resources activated as before. If I add a akonadi resource, they are preconfigured and targeting the right local files of my previous installation.

So my first question is: Should I use akonadi or not? I have just standard resources (vCalender/vCard) and I am not very satisfied with kaddressbook at the moment.

The reason why I'm not really satisfied are a few bugs.

• Repeating events are not working for me until KDE 4.1 (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=197149)
• Filtering Categories (Subcategories) does not work (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171484)
• Filters are not working (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=186190)
• Date inputs are not editable by keyboard

Especially the first one makes korganizer somewhat useless for me.
I reported bugs and commented some but the most of them are just leaved unconfirmed or new since 4.1.0.

So whats the state of it right now?
Are the kdepim developers busy in migrating the whole suite to akonadi and having no time to fix bugs?
Will switching to akonadi solve any of the bugs written above?
(Okay defenetly not the last one)
I am not angry, I know that you are doing a great work.
But until KDE 4.1 I recreated all my reoccuring events about 10 times. (I have about 50 of em)
I just want to know what I should do...

Greetings from germany

KAddressBook will be replaced with KContactManager in KDE 4.4 hopefully, which is the Akonadi port of KAddressBook and includes many bugfixes and feature requests.

tils wrote:So my first question is: Should I use akonadi or not?

Don't use it. There is no benefit in using it - only some more troubles
As noted before by bcooksley, KDE 4.4 things should change for 4.4.

Hi there,

@bcooksley: Kaddressbook has some usability problems for me but basicly its fine. It will be great to have something visually designed but I have no problems with kaddressbook.

@birdy: The last time i asked for that (viewtopic.php?f=20&t=29529&p=40540#p40540) the answer was that the vcard ressource is stable enough but not the rest.
So I asked for an update on KDE 4.3.
It seems that it will be ready in KDE 4.4/4.5. (http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/PIM/Ak ... konadi_1.2)

But the problems I have with korganizer arent away. They still exists in 4.3. (like mentioned above)
I really need Korganizer and basically I like it. But the bugs have to be fixed or I have to switch to another app.
Bur I really don't want to do that.
So it would be helpful to have an information if the bugs will be fixed or I have to wait until KDE 4.5 or something like that.
Any dev here? (Perhaps I'll try the mailing list....

tils wrote:But the resources are not activated in KDE. Kontact and systemsettings are showing just the same local vCalender/vCard resources activated as before. If I add a akonadi resource, they are preconfigured and targeting the right local files of my previous installation.

The port of KAddressBook didn't make it into 4.3 and the automated migration of the compatibilty plugins remained disabled.

The plugins are a lot better than the ones from 4.2, but probably still not as good as the traditional plugins. People interested in testing can add them manually like any other resource plugin in KAddressBook, KOrganizer or Systemsettings -> Advanced Tab -> KDE Resources.

tils wrote:So my first question is: Should I use akonadi or not?

While I would appreciate any real world testing, I would not go as far as recommending people to switch. After all this is usually highly valuable data (valuable in the sense of personal importance).

tils wrote:So whats the state of it right now?
Are the kdepim developers busy in migrating the whole suite to akonadi and having no time to fix bugs?

While quite a lot of developers are working on porting, they are also working on bugs, especially application bugs not related to the storage layer.
It takes a bit longer than usual due to the split of resource though.

tils wrote:Will switching to akonadi solve any of the bugs written above?

The filtering related ones maybe. I think KOrganizer on Akonadi is still on track for 4.4, but at the beginning of the 4.3 cycle it also looked like KAddressBook would make it for 4.3 but then a couple of features were still missing at freeze day.

Cheers,
_

Thanks a lot for the clarifications.

Cheers
Michael