Hello.

I have never been able to use contacts runner in my plasma desktop. I have the runner enabled in krunner config, I'm using Google Contacts akonadi resource as my only source of contacts. I can see all my Google contacts in KAddressBook, but when I type a contact name in krunner (ALT+F2) nothing happens. Am I missing anything? How could I debug this issue?

Thanks.

Have you tried enabling the "Nepomuk Desktop Search" runner as well?

bcooksley wrote:Have you tried enabling the "Nepomuk Desktop Search" runner as well?

Yes, it is enabled. I can not figure out what is happening. Do you know how can I debug the issue?

bcooksley wrote:Have you tried enabling the "Nepomuk Desktop Search" runner as well?

I can see an entry with the name of the contact searched for, tagged "Contact" with the Nepomuk icon, but that is not what I'm looking for. I want to be able to send an email by introducing some letters of a contact name and pressing Enter. I suppose the contacts runner works that way, or am I wrong?

The Contacts runner should work like that in theory at least, yes. I have just checked the code, and unfortunately the Contacts runner uses the legacy, pre-Akonadi system to access Contact information, which explains why it isn't working for you. At some point it will likely need to be ported I suspect.

I'm using debian sid packaging of KDE 4.11.3.

I have read the source code here: http://sources.debian.net/src/kdeplasma ... runner.cpp.

Is that KABC class the pre-Akonadi system you are referring to? I don't understand either why Aaron Seigo and Sebastian Kügler told me on #plasma IRC channel that the runner was working for them. I suppose they are using Akonadi, or perhaps, not. Or maybe they are using a ported version.

KABC is the pre-Akonadi system, yes. One possible reason it worked for them is that they may have a KABC <-> Akonadi bridge on their systems. You would need to check with them on the specifics however, I may have misread the code. (I know some parts of KABC are definitely still used even in the Akonadi era..)

If I use such a bridge, does it mean that I have to put my Google Contacts in a local vcard address book?

No, that will not be necessary. The bridge merely provides Akonadi data through the KABC system, allowing the Contacts runner to function in the process .

bcooksley wrote:No, that will not be necessary. The bridge merely provides Akonadi data through the KABC system, allowing the Contacts runner to function in the process .

Could you tell me how can I do that? A reference link should be enough.

Run "kcmshell4 kresources", and select "Contacts" from the drop down. Then add a "Akonadi Address Books" entry.

It's working now, but the contacts appear twice in krunner. Do you know why?

You probably need to disable the Nepomuk Search runner - otherwise it could be a bug in the Akonadi <-> KABC bridge...

I have disabled my Nepomuk Search runner, but the contacts appear twice again. This is in a KDE 4.11.3 (debian sid packaging) netbook, but in my desktop computer, where I run KDE 4.10.5 (debian testing packaging) the runner works perfectly now. Only one entry per contact. Coud that be a regression? Do you have any suggestion about what can be the problem in that case?

Unfortunately I have very little information on this - I can suggest that you make sure only one Akonadi bridge has been added in the kresources settings though, or try removing it and adding it back again.