Re: Oddness with KDE addressbook

[Jack <ostroffjh sbcglobal net>]

On 2010.12.13 19:34, Jack wrote:
> I doubt this is actually a balsa issue, but maybe someone else has  
> seen this and already solved it.  I have a mostly KDE system, so my  
> address book is in ~/.kde4/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf.  Most of the  
> time, this works just fine, and balsa correctly suggests names as I  
> type in the TO: field.
[snipped unpredictable problem with line endings]
> My new problem is that balsa seems to be picking up the FN: entry.  I  
> use "last, first" as my default display, which is in the file as  
> "FN:last\, first" and starting recently, balsa has been showing the  
> display name as "last\\,first <email@host>" and when I click or tab  
> out of the TO: field, it breaks it into two addresses "last" and  
> "first <email@host>".  I haven't updated balsa in a few months, so I  
> assume it's related to some change on the KDE side - although  
> kaddressbook looks like it also hasn't changed in over a month.

This problem continues to bother me, but every time I think I clearly  
understand what is happening, I think I see something different.  The  
main problem seems to be that balsa takes the FN value of "FN:last\,  
first" and create an address line of "last\\, first <name@host>"  
(quotes added by me - not in the address) adding a backslash to quote  
the backslash, but not quoting the name.  I vaguely recall some cases  
where it creates '"last, first" <name@host>' possibly with one or more  
backslashes before the comma, but with quotes around the "last, first"  
which prevents the name from being split into two address entries.

Am I missing some configuration setting?  Is there a configuration  
setting I could request as a wish-list?  I don't want to change my FN  
entries, since I like my addressbook display values sorted by last  
name.  (If there is some configuration I'm missing in KAddressBook,  
I'll be glad to know about it.)  Right now I have to manually fix every  
address that balsa pulls from the address book.

Thanks for any hints or suggestions.

Jack