I'm having a lot of issues with akonadi & the default address book. Judging from the posts in this section of the forum I'm not alone. Looks like a lot of other users are having those issues as well.

Maybe the developers need to post a sticky note on this forum detailing the known issues? What do you think?

I installed Kontact, but can't seem to see the contacts I added (imported.
I sent a test email and selected a contact that way. I opened the address book. still no names listed but a blank space. When I hovered over it I saw the pop-up info telling me which of my contacts it was. Strange.

Multiple address books were shown. I deleted most of them.
Also in my "office" tab I have the components of kdepim shown as individual apps. I opened the address book. It's a mess! Very difficult to navigate. couldn't add contacts. I'm guessing I got hold of a development edition.

Don't mean to ramble here. It was just a confusing and frustrating experience. The default kde-address book imports a .csv file. The kdepim contacts app only imports .vcard file type.

All in all just confusing and strange. Akonadi kept crashing when trying to enter contact data...

I don't know how relevant my experience is to you, but it might give you an idea of what's wrong. I upgraded my netbook to KDE 4.6 and although KMail was fine, I couldn't see my addressbook, nor could I address it from KMail. I use Fedora, and since others had reported similar experience Rex built kdepim 4.4 against 4.6, releasing it in the testing repo as 4.4.10. Upgrading to that fixed the issue completely.

I don't know chakra at all so you are much better placed than I am to know who to contact or what to do.

annew wrote:I don't know how relevant my experience is to you, but it might give you an idea of what's wrong. I upgraded my netbook to KDE 4.6 and although KMail was fine, I couldn't see my addressbook, nor could I address it from KMail. I use Fedora, and since others had reported similar experience Rex built kdepim 4.4 against 4.6, releasing it in the testing repo as 4.4.10. Upgrading to that fixed the issue completely.

I don't know chakra at all so you are much better placed than I am to know who to contact or what to do.

Thanks. I'll check into that. Love the concept of Kontact (kde-pim or whatever!) but I'm really running out of hope for it. Seems almost like there are two separate schools of thought developing it from two different directions. it's just not unified right now.

mshelby,

Maybe this thread will help:

viewtopic.php?f=20&t=88808

Good luck.