On Friday 18 January 2002 04:04 pm, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Am Freitag, 18. Januar 2002 15:28 schrieb Regnat Nikolaus: > > Another question: Why does KDE have two adress managers (kadressbook and > > kab)? Is there any reason for this (e.g. do we really need two adressbook > > applications)? > > They are only frontends to the same data. There is even a third one: > abbrowser. > However, the address management capabilities in KDE2 are...lets say... > simple. Almost all features that would make its use worthwhile are left > out.
Can you give me some examples? I am in need of an address book and figured I'd use one of KDE's since I use KDE all day anyway. If any of these features render the address book critically broken, then it would be helpful to know up front so I don' waste time entering data I can't work with intelligently. Thanks. > :-( > > And whoever got the idea to store the data file in a _hidden_ directory of > the home dir (~/.kde/share/apps/kab) should get...oh well... <snip> That's unfortunate -- I'll have to keep that in mind, lest I accidently delete all my entries. <snip>
