Open LO, File → New → Database → Connect to an existing database → KDE adress book → Next → No, do not register → open the database for editing → Finish and Save: Connection could not be established. With Base you could connect (under Linux) to the addressbook of KDE. Up to the last Version 3.5.* the connection could be established, but no content is shown with my special addressbook - don't know why. Same system, since LO 3.6.*, an error occured: SQL Status: HY000 The connection to the external data source could not be established. No SDBC driver was found for the given URL. A connection for the following URL was requested "sdbc:address:kab". It's the same behavior with all versions up to 4.2.0.0 master from 2013-10-18.
(In reply to robert from comment #0) > Open LO, File → New → Database → Connect to an existing database → KDE > adress book → Next → No, do not register → open the database for editing → > Finish and Save: Connection could not be established. TESTING with LO 4.4.0.0.alpha1 + Ubuntu 14.04 I tried the repro steps and did not get an error message about the connection, but LibreOffice did crash and provide the following information: qubit@lo:~/lo$ terminate called after throwing an instance of 'com::sun::star::loader::CannotActivateFactoryException' (Note: It's possible that I don't have any entries in the KDE Address book) So while I didn't exactly confirm your behavior, I managed to crash LibreOffice using the same repro steps, which is pretty interesting. I'll get a 3rd set of eyes to take a look here.
Bug reproduced. I'm using Ubuntu 14.10 with KDE(4.14.1) and LibreOfficeDev Version: 4.5.0.0.alpha0+ Build ID: dad173d9588e6abc2a465198b7d2881d4629246a TinderBox: Linux-rpm_deb-x86_64@46-TDF-dbg, Branch:master, Time: 2014-12-10_22:53:28
(In reply to Daniel Pastushchak from comment #3) > Bug reproduced. Thanks for the repro! Status -> NEW Did you get the same error as Robert, or did LO crash for you?
Adding self to CC if not already on
Any update with recent LO versions? (I'm on Gnome not KDE so can't test myself). It could be interesting to launch LO from console to retrieve all possible error/warn logs.
Tested this with LO 5.0.3.1. Error is the same: No SDBC driver was found for the given URL. "sdbc:address:kab" My system: openSUSE 20150319 (Tumbleweed), 64bit rpm Linux.
So let's keep this as NEW.
On a laptop where I installed Kubuntu 15.04 to give it a try (I usually use XFCE with Gnome on my main laptop with Debian), I tried to reproduce with master sources updated today. I used --enable-kde4 but didn't even have KDE Adressbook. Discussing a bit on IRC, I've been advised to try "--disable-tdeab", but no success (I runned ./autogen.sh && make && make postprocess.clean && make postprocess + clean LO profile) Then I searched about tde that I didn't know, Googling a bit indicated me that it was Trinity Desktop Env, a fork of kde 3.5. But "kab" isn't it the addressbook of kde4 too? I noticed some commits related to kab: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=e382d3782c171bb7962d21662d86669a76ffc8d0 or http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=4d4835cc55561b7ccdd628fa3a40d71fc9e9ff9e but it seems only related to TDE's integration, not kab in general. Michael: noticing http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=72699595aaa3ecb8975050b6dfc6fde437770493 remove KDE3 support, --enable-kde and --enable-kdeab With the new RHEL6-era baseline TDF can finally ship KDE4 support. thought you might have some hints.
the KDE address book driver in connectivity only supports KDE3, and was removed on master since KDE3 is obsolete. the TDE address book driver still exists (for now) and is in fact the same code as the KDE3 one, but only supports TDE. there has not ever been support for KDE4 or later address books => setting this to "enhancement" and CC: some KDE folks
Thank you Michael for the detailed explanation!
Dear Robert Großkopf, KDE4 support has been dropped in LibreOffice 6.3. Could you please try to reproduce it with LibreOffice 6.3 Beta1 from https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/GetInvolved#Test_Pre-releases ? You can install it alongside the standard version. I have set the bug's status to 'NEEDINFO'. Please change it back to 'NEW' if the bug is still present in the master build
I have tried to create a new connection to KDE adress book. There is no possibility to choose a connection to KDE adress book in all LO-versions since LO 5.1.*. Seems the possibility to connect to this adressbook has been removed. Tested with LO 6.3.0.0.beta1 and KDE 5.12.8 on OpenSUSE 15. Don't know if we should closed this bug as WONTFIX. I'm not using this adressbook - doesn't use adressbooks at all. Have only detected the wrong behaviour while writing the Base-Handbook.
Comment 10 explains things, so let's make it clear in the summary.
(In reply to Buovjaga from comment #14) > Comment 10 explains things, so let's make it clear in the summary. Comment 10 is from 2015. Since we dumped kde4, I don't think we should try to implement kde4 address book management. So I'd be ok with Robert for WONTFIX (just my personal opinion)
IMH(In reply to Julien Nabet from comment #15) > (In reply to Buovjaga from comment #14) > > Comment 10 explains things, so let's make it clear in the summary. > > Comment 10 is from 2015. Since we dumped kde4, I don't think we should try > to implement kde4 address book management. > So I'd be ok with Robert for WONTFIX > (just my personal opinion) This is not about a particular KDE version. IMHO KDE PIM in KDE3 was quite popular, so someone implemented a DB driver to access its address book from LO. In KDE4 - still IMHO - PIM was a disaster to use; I gave up on it. Now there is KDE5. I have no idea about the quality of PIM in there. As it stands some functionality was removed from LO, as it became obsoleted and nobody was interested in porting it to a newer version of KDE. Somebody might want to implement a DB driver for KDE5, so I think an enhancement report is still valid.
(In reply to Jan-Marek Glogowski from comment #16) > IMH(In reply to Julien Nabet from comment #15) > > (In reply to Buovjaga from comment #14) > > > Comment 10 explains things, so let's make it clear in the summary. > > > > Comment 10 is from 2015. Since we dumped kde4, I don't think we should try > > to implement kde4 address book management. > > So I'd be ok with Robert for WONTFIX > > (just my personal opinion) > > This is not about a particular KDE version. IMHO KDE PIM in KDE3 was quite > popular, so someone implemented a DB driver to access its address book from > LO. In KDE4 - still IMHO - PIM was a disaster to use; I gave up on it. Now > there is KDE5. I have no idea about the quality of PIM in there. > > As it stands some functionality was removed from LO, as it became obsoleted > and nobody was interested in porting it to a newer version of KDE. Somebody > might want to implement a DB driver for KDE5, so I think an enhancement > report is still valid. Yep, was coming here to say KDE5 is still valid. https://userbase.kde.org/KAddressBook PIM is still being actively worked on: https://www.dvratil.cz/2019/05/march-and-april-in-kde-pim/ Quote: "KAddressBook Volker also worked on preparing the KContacts library, a vCard standard implementation, to be moved to KDE Frameworks alongside KCalCore. You can read about this on his blog as well. Improvements As part of his code cleanup, Volker has removed the DataMatrix from contact display, so we only display the QR code now (Volker Krause, KDE Applications 19.08), and did massive clean up of the contact display code. When displaying contact address on a map, KAddressBook now defaults to OpenStreetMaps (Volker Krause, KDE Applications 19.08). Thanks to Laurent Montel it is now also possible to send SMS messages from KAddressBook through KDE Connect (KDE Applications 19.08). Bugfixes Fixed dialing contact’s phone-number from KAddressBook through KDE Connect (Volker Krause, D20353)"