I just upgrade to kubuntu lucid and to kde 4.4.1. In previous version i have organise my contacts to groups like "friends", "work" , "shop" etc with their emails, address, phone number.
After the upgrade i have lost all my groups and kadressbook have one new poor interface that you cant create easy new groups.
All the work and organise i have done until now have gone forever!!
And i cant find how to create new!!
Anyone can help how i can organise my contacts to groups?

First - your work has not gone forever. All the information still exists in your std.vcf. Some parts of it are not yet visible. Your description doesn't make it clear whether you are actually talking about distribution lists or category tags. Groups are to be the replacement for distribution lists, but at present no migration tool is available. This is expected in v.4.5.

However, creating a new group should be possible. Please describe what you see when you try to create a group. If you mean category tags, however, this is not yet available. As I said, your work isn't lost, but nor is it usable at this moment. It will return.

Is not very complex that i ask... I have some contacts in my address book and i like to organise them to groups!! How i do this now? I dont care about tag or category or whatever else. Simply to organise them again!
How can i do this in the new kadressbook interface?
And is not so simply to say that "this is not yet available" in a desktop workstation. Why you break kadressbook in stable version like this?
I work 4 years with KDE and i have never see that before to break programmes interfaces to worst.

Life is one long round of changes - learn to live with it.

Create groups for the headings that you want, then in the input box start to type a name of one of the people you want to add and you will see a list of matches - select the one you want to add. Continue until your group is complete.

Don't expect to be able to use the group in the same way as distribution lists - at the moment that still can't be done. However you can copy the whole list off addresses and paste them into a message.

As for it not being very 'complex' if that were so I think the developers would have had a version that they considered sufficiently stable to release it by now. Be thankful that they have chosen to hold back on anything that could be considered unstable and a possible threat to your data.

I have switch back to thunderbird . I cant work like this in kmail. Is very complex for me and i think that you have done the simple things very hard.
I think you must remember in KDE that you create software for humans and not for Geth, Bot or ΑΙ

Can somebody *in the know* please, please, please explain to the rest of us lowly, misinformed, whiny users what the plan is for kaddressbook/kmail and when? I, for one, would love to know when (or IF) I can expect to be able to use the tools again.

Maybe it's just me, but IMESHO there seems to be a distinct disregard by some in the dev community about what users think/want/need. Perhaps this is to be expected in an open community such as KDE. But, we users need to raise our voices here. As I've stated before in adjacent threads, this release approach is unacceptable. Users who rely on these tools need to have some minimal degree of confidence in them. Product experimentation and evolution is a good thing, but not when it renders the product useless (or overly cumbersome) to the broader user base.

Is there any reason why KDE couldn't have introduced a separate/parallel addressbook while maintaining the old one until usability/stability is achieved on the new one? This would at least allow folks the option to continue to work.

The "learn to live with it" attitude is, quite frankly, very perplexing to me also. As if to say there are no alternatives. I simply don't believe in that philosophy. Nor do I believe do the vast majority of users.

I have to confess that I'm teetering on switching my wife and me to Thunderbird as well. Disappointing as that may be as a very long and loyal KDE user.

Has KDE sadly and finally adopted that old FOSS adage that - "it's not just good, it's good enough!" Or - "you get what you pay for."???

Be great to hear some supporting opinions on this. I just don't believe we're only a few who are really pi**ed about this.

I've just read this thread... Well, there's mine:
viewtopic.php?f=20&t=86488&p=151079&hilit=kaddressbook#p151079
The same problem and the same solution.
I've wanted to report a Bug, but someone already did:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=222678
Some interesting comments from disappointed users. Quite interesting, this bug is known for almost three months already. And it was like... planned?