Problems with Kontact on Windows

[Bernhard Reiter]

Am Dienstag, 26. Januar 2010 18:10:04 schrieb Jochen May:
> 3 Problems with Kontact Version 1.3 (enterprise4 0.20091204.1058385) on
> Windows XP SP2
>
> I´m not sure if this is the wright place to post my issue. If not, please
> forward me to the right place/people :-)

This is the right place.
If your reports are detailed enough and you feel confident, you could directly 
create an issue in the tracker. Note that our roadmap is to bring up alpha 
versions of the enterprise5 next generation on Kontact very soon.

> I use Kontact on Windows and Linux. On Linux i have no problems. But on
> Windows there are some issues:
>
> 1.)I create on Linux a new event, for example from 10.00 – 11.00. On the
> Linux clients and on Horde everything looks good, no matter wich kind of
> view i chose (→ Day, Weekly or Month). On Windows the day and weekly view
> are ok. When i display a month, the time of the event show 1 hour to early.
> In this case from 9.00 – 10.00. A double clicck on the event show me the
> right time. Also on the left site, where the detailed information of this
> event are displayed, the time ist ok.

Sounds like a plain displaying defect. You could file it in the tracker.

> 2.)When Kontact is running offline, i can not access the calender and the
> adress book. But the notes and tasks are working. I try to explain this:
> Kontact is running online, everything ist ok and i can access both. Now i
> shutdown kontact and disconnected from the network. Now i restart kontact
> and switch to the calender. In the ressource window (in the left bottom
> corner) are still my imap ressource (but without the subfolders, like
> shared.calender, own calender, ...). I need to delete the imar ressource
> and add a new one with the right mouse button. There i choose imap-calender
> via kmail and voila, my calender incl. the subfolders are back. The same
> happens to the adress book. This is happen every time i start kontact
> offline.

Uh, this should not happen. Can you file this one as well.

> 3.) Also i try to setup gpg4win2, but i get only an error. The error
> message ist: "Cannot load library
> C:/Programme/Kontact/lib/kde4/kmailpart.dll" I follow the instruction from
> the file "README-kontact-20091204-3-en.txt"

Did you adapt the PATH accordingly, also see hints as the bottom of
http://wiki.kolab.org/index.php/Kontact_for_Windows_(beta-huge-debug)

> By the way, it´s a damn cool piece of software :-)

You are welcome and thanks again for testing, it is the community that makes 
Free Software so strong!

Bernhard


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