Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 66748
Kaddressbook - changes to "file as" field lost on save or exit
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:43:10 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.0.0-10; Linux) Description of problem: When using kaddressbook and changes are made to the "file as" field for a particular entry, the changes appear just fine on the display and it looks like the change is in place. You can go back into the entry and the changes still appear intact. The moment the changes are saved to disk, the "file as" field for all address book entries will always resort back to firstname lastname order, regardless of what they were set to. In scouring the kde mailing lists it appears that the developers have already fixed this problem. Because the new address book under KDE 3 is now integral to KMail as well, and the "file as" field is critical to how entries display in the address book, I would love to see this as a bug fix under 7.3. I use the address book under KDE and KMail all the time and have become quite reliant on it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Enter an entry using kaddressbook. Enter first name, last name, and a company. 2.Select some available combination in the "file as" field" other then just firstname lastname. For ex. companyname (lastname, firstname). 3.Exit entry edit. 4.Notice listing now shows the "file as" field as you specified. 5.Click on save icon. 6.Notice "file as" field has now changed. Actual Results: "File as" field changed, which changed the order address book entries are sorted in. Expected Results: "File as" field should be saved as I specified so address book entries will sort the way I want them to. Additional info: As stated above, I believe the bug is already fixed by the original developers, but would like to see RedHat officially release a patch for this.
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