[SOLVED] Kde 4.9.00 Address autocompletion in Kontact/Kmail

[Snowhog]

Kubuntu 12.04 64-bit, fully dist-upgraded.

Added the ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports repository this morning and upgraded to KDE 4.9.00. Rebooted when finished and am now using KDE 4.9.00 in all it's newness. The enhancements to Dolphin are nice. Kontact/Kmail (with akonadi) are running just fine. What is still missing there, is the ability to select recipients from your Contacts 'on the fly' when typing -- it still doesn't search your Contacts. I really don't know why this 'basic' function still hasn't been fixed.

[SteveRiley]

Have you configured Nepomuk to index your email?

[sumski]

https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/105508/

Disable autocompletion-via-nepomuk until it is fast and does not block further nepomuk queries (such as the ones run when clicking Send in kmail composer).

[Snowhog]

Meaning it is still 'in the works'?

[sumski]

I guess so

[sumski]

There seems to be a patch for fixing autocompletation without nepomuk:

diff -Nru kdepim-4.8.97/messagecomposer/composerlineedit.cpp kdepim-4.8.97.new/messagecomposer/composerlineedit.cpp
--- kdepim-4.8.97/messagecomposer/composerlineedit.cpp    2012-06-25 22:30:06.000000000 +0200
+++ kdepim-4.8.97.new/messagecomposer/composerlineedit.cpp    2012-07-30 16:31:18.832547093 +0200
@@ -33,6 +34,12 @@
 #include <kabc/contactgroup.h>
 #include <kabc/vcardconverter.h>
 
+#include <Akonadi/Collection>
+#include <Akonadi/RecursiveItemFetchJob>
+#include <Akonadi/ItemFetchScope>
+
+#include <Nepomuk/ResourceManager>
+
 #include <kio/netaccess.h>
 #include <kmenu.h>
 #include <kurl.h>
@@ -256,6 +263,26 @@
       addContact( addr, weight, idx );
     }
   }
+
+  // Nepomuk missing, fallback
+  if ( !Nepomuk::ResourceManager::instance()->initialized() ){
+    Akonadi::RecursiveItemFetchJob *job =
+    new Akonadi::RecursiveItemFetchJob( Akonadi::Collection::root(),
+                                        QStringList() << KABC::Addressee::mimeType() );
+    job->fetchScope().fetchFullPayload();
+
+    KABC::Addressee::List contacts;
+    if ( !job->exec() ) {
+      return;
+    }
+
+    const int idx = addCompletionSource( i18n( "Contacts" ), 10);
+    foreach ( const Akonadi::Item &item, job->items() ) {
+      if ( item.isValid() && item.hasPayload<KABC::Addressee>() ) {
+        addContact( item.payload<KABC::Addressee>(), 10, idx );
+      }
+    }
+  }
 }
 
 void ComposerLineEdit::setRecentAddressConfig ( KConfig* config )

I'll try it , and report back

[Snowhog]

Thank you!

[SteveRiley]

Hey, I'm glad to see that coming.

[sumski]

No good, with/out nepomuk :mad:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259949

[Snowhog]

Well, thank you for trying.

I don't understand why such a basic feature of a mail client seems to be so difficult to get incorporated into Kontact/Kmail. But, I'm not a developer/programmer, so I'll just continue to wait.

[sumski]

I'll try reverting that commit, and see if that helps. Rather misterious issue, according to comments in that bug report
EDIT:
Just to add - i've test the patch against master kdepim, it might work with 4.9.0
There have been changes since 4.9 branching so that might be it

[sumski]

Guess what? Now it's working
I've disabled completion with recent adresses, and completation via addressbook suddenly started to work (this is with the mentioned patch)

[Snowhog]

That's interesting, and leads me to a 'thought': What if instead of storing 'recent address' in nepomuk or where ever they are kept, Kontact was modified to save 'recent addresses' that DO NOT ALREADY EXIST in ones contacts, to a special Contact folder: Recent Addresses. In this way, the conflicting code of searching recent addresses vs ones contacts can be avoided. Kontact/Kmail would just search for auto-completion within ones Contacts.

Added:
I've added my suggestion to https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259949

[sumski]

I don't know, i don't even can remeber what lead to this 'success'. Works - WITH patch AND nepomuk enabled AND with/out recent addresses completion.
In the meanwhile,i've disabled nepomuk for akonadi, killed my akonadi contact resources, recreated them, changed value in
$KDEHOME/share/config/akonadi_nepomuk_feederrc
from
InitialIndexingComplete=true
to
InitialIndexingComplete=false
re-enable nepomuk for akonadi, and for now, it works.
Will test again without the patch

[sumski]

Snowhog, no patching required -
edit, or create
$KDEHOME/share/config/kpimcompletionorder
and add:

[General]
UseNepomuk=true