Package: kaddressbook Version: 4:16.04.3-3 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
In Kaddressbook it is not possible to manage the FN property (the formatted name string associated with a vCard object) required by vCard version 3.0 and version 4.0 [1] and this creates issues with shared CardDAV address books. Also, the program does not use the properties FN and N (structured representation of the name of the person associated with a vCard object) as expected in showing contacts in the contacts list. I'll make an example to explain the issue better. # PROCEDURE 1 This is the vCard that I want to import with Kaddressbook in a CardDAV address book: BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:Potter;Harry;;; FN:Harry the Wizard TEL;TYPE=CELL:+4400000 EMAIL;TYPE=INTERNET;TYPE=WORK:harry.pot...@hogwarts.co.uk END:VCARD Once imported, in Kaddressbook the contact is displayed in the contact list and in the preview panel (I don't know how it is called, it is the panel on the right when using the two-columns or three-columns disposition) with the content of the FN property as the name. Meaning that in the preview panel I see this: [contact picture] Harry the Wizard mobile phone +4400000 e-mail harry.pot...@hogwarts.co.uk Here the N property is missing while I expect to see it along with the other contact details. Also, in Kaddressbook there is no way to change the FN property. The only way is to delete the contact and import it back with a different FN property set in the vCard. Or use the web interface of the CardDAV address book and change there that property if it is possible. # PROCEDURE 2 Another way to add this contact is to create it from Kaddrressbook without importing the aforementioned vCard. This procedure seems to be more problematic. In doing so the FN property cannot be set, therefore the contact is displayed in the contact list and in the preview panel with the name given in the N property field, meaning that in the preview panel now I see this: [contact picture] Harry Potter mobile phone +4400000 e-mail harry.pot...@hogwarts.co.uk At this point I don't know if Kaddressbook set an FN property on its own but the contact is registered in the shared address book with the FN property set to the content of the EMAIL property. And if the EMAIL property is not set then the FN property is not set at all (meaning that on the web interface I see a contact entry with a blank name). To make it clear, at this point Kaddressbook exports this vCard: BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 EMAIL;TYPE=WORK:harry.pot...@hogwarts.co.uk N:Potter;Harry;;; TEL;TYPE=CELL:+4400000 UID:<long UID number here> END:VCARD while the web interface of the CardDAV address book exports this vCard: BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:Potter;Harry;;; FN:harry.pot...@hogwarts.co.uk TEL;TYPE=CELL:+4400000 EMAIL;TYPE=INTERNET;TYPE=WORK:harry.pot...@hogwarts.co.uk END:VCARD As you can see the FN property is missing in the former, while it is set to the email address in the latter. So on different devices the CardDAV address book is a total mess. # SIDE NOTE Lastly, when composing an e-mail in Kmail, if a contact has both the FN and the N properties, Kmail will use the address in the format <FN property><EMAIL property>, instead of <N property><EMAIL property>, which is not really good: To: Harry the Wizard <harry.pot...@hogwarts.co.uk> Instead I would expect to see: To: Harry Potter <harry.pot...@hogwarts.co.uk> The problems described here are unfortunately really annoying when working with CardDAV address books. Properly managing the FN property should solve everything, I suppose. I hope a patch can be provided in time for the release of Strecth. Regards Francesco [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCard#Properties -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages kaddressbook depends on: ii kio 5.28.0-1 ii libc6 2.24-9 ii libgcc1 1:6.3.0-6 ii libkf5akonadicontact5 4:16.04.2-2 ii libkf5akonadicore5 4:16.04.3-4 ii libkf5akonadisearchdebug5 16.04.3-1 ii libkf5akonadiwidgets5 4:16.04.3-4 ii libkf5completion5 5.28.0-1 ii libkf5configcore5 5.28.0-1 ii libkf5configgui5 5.28.0-1 ii libkf5configwidgets5 5.28.0-1 ii libkf5contacts5 16.04.2-1 ii libkf5coreaddons5 5.28.0-1 ii libkf5gpgmepp-pthread5 16.04.3-2 ii libkf5grantleetheme-plugins 16.04.3-1 ii libkf5grantleetheme5 16.04.3-1 ii libkf5i18n5 5.28.0-1 ii libkf5iconthemes5 5.28.0-1 ii libkf5itemmodels5 5.28.0-1 ii libkf5jobwidgets5 5.28.0-1 ii libkf5kaddressbookgrantlee5 4:16.04.2-2 ii libkf5kcmutils5 5.28.0-1 ii libkf5kdelibs4support5 5.28.0-1 ii libkf5kiocore5 5.28.0-1 ii libkf5kiowidgets5 5.28.0-1 ii libkf5kontactinterface5 16.04.2-1 ii libkf5libkdepim-plugins 4:16.04.2-3 ii libkf5libkdepim5 4:16.04.2-3 ii libkf5parts5 5.28.0-1 ii libkf5pimcommon-plugins 4:16.04.2-2 ii libkf5pimcommon5 4:16.04.2-2 ii libkf5qgpgme5 16.04.3-2 ii libkf5widgetsaddons5 5.28.0-1 ii libkf5xmlgui5 5.28.0-1 ii libqt5core5a 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1 ii libqt5dbus5 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1 ii libqt5gui5 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1 ii libqt5printsupport5 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1 ii libqt5widgets5 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1 ii libstdc++6 6.3.0-6 kaddressbook recommends no packages. kaddressbook suggests no packages. -- no debconf information