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gracedman

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Wednesday, March 3rd 2004, 3:57pm

Kontact not saving appointments

Hmm . . . I really am a KDE fan I always prefer KDE apps to GNOME apps all things being equal. However, I continue to be disappointed with Kontact. I am quite willing to confess that it may be my problem in that I am not perusing the documentation. On the other hand, I have referred to it when I have a problem and good software should be highly intuitive.

I find that when I launch Kontact and go to the calendar, I click on a time, enter the text (I do find it annoying that I am forced to use a dialog rather than just taking my preselected time and my text and intelligently defaulting the rest), click on OK, see my appointment (all my tests have been with appointments in the past - recording my time), and exit Kontact.

I reopen Kontact at a later time and the event is never there. I have not tried entering it just in KOrganizer but, if I have to do that, what's the sense of Kontact.

When I combine this with the problems I am having navigating through KMail, it looks like I'm heading back to Evolution.

Am I just being dense or does Kontact have a ways to go before it is a mature product? Please don't take this as a rant - I really want to use Kontact! Thanks - John
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Wednesday, November 10th 2004, 9:09pm

it's not just Kontact

since KDE 3.2, I've had similar trouble with Kontact/Korganizer (as far as I know, you can't run just Korganizer anymore)...I have to explicitly "Save As..." every time (not just "Save") in order to get appointments and To Dos to be saved, and I have had to jump through hoops to get Korganizer to automatically load my calendar on boot. Actually, once I got it to load, the saving problem was gone, but I can no longer remember the precise sequence of hoops I jumped through to get it to load, so lately I've been back to saving and loading everything manually all the time.

All of this stuff used to work beautifully under KDE 3.1. I too am generally a KDE app preferrer, but I'm very disappointed in the direction Kontact has turned. What happened to the menu option to make the current calendar the default one that I used to have in Korganizaer under KDE 3.1? It has vanished without a trace, and I can't find a thing in the documentation explaining how to do it.

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Thursday, November 11th 2004, 2:10pm

Well, I must say I stand corrected. I realized after I made that post that I was actually running Korganizer as a stand-alone the whole time without realizing it! When I switched to running Kontact instead of Korganizer, all of my problems went away. Things are now saved and loaded completely automatically, for me.