Re: Oddness with KDE addressbook
- From: Jack <ostroffjh sbcglobal net>
- To: balsa-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Oddness with KDE addressbook
- Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 18:37:30 -0500
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
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