On Wednesday 22 Dec 2004 13:48, Alan Chandler wrote: > On Wednesday 22 December 2004 09:06, Peter Nuttall wrote: > > On Wednesday 22 Dec 2004 08:44, Alan Chandler wrote: > > > Although I have been using kmail for a long time, I have only > > > recently started to look at using the address book. > > > > > > kaddressbook has been set up with a few entries in it. > > > > > > If I go to kmail tools menu and select "address book", I open > > > kaddressbook and can select entries from it and use it to send a > > > message. > > > > > > However, when I compose a message from scratch, I would expect to hit > > > the button with the three dots on the right hand side to bring up a > > > dialog box that lets me select an address from the address book. > > > > This is what happens on my system. > > ... > > > 1) what version of kde are you running? What you describe is correct > > for 3.3, which is the version in sid. > > I am running KDE 3.3.1, the latest from Debian Unstable. > > I am confused as to what you mean here - "What I describe" means the way > I actually have it work, or the way I expected it to be? > The way you expected to it to be. In the spirit of "a picture is worth a thousand words" I have put a screen shot of my system on the web at:
http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/~psn/KDE/snapshot5.png > > 2) are you saving the address book after making changes? That has burnt > > me once or twice. > > Oh yes, I can call it up as an independent application and see the > addresses > I'm stumped. The only thing you seem to be doing differently to me is that I have my people in groups and you might not. You could try looking for the problem on the kde bug tracking system at bugs.kde.org . If nothing else, they could help a lot more. Sorry I can't help more, Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
