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<bookinfo>

<title>The &kontact; Handbook</title>

<authorgroup>
<author>
<firstname>Cornelius</firstname>
<surname>Schumacher</surname>
<affiliation><address>&Cornelius.Schumacher.mail;</address></affiliation>
</author>

<author>
<firstname>Antonio</firstname>
<surname>Salazar</surname>
<affiliation><address><email>savedfastcool@gmail.com</email>
    </address></affiliation>
</author>

<author>
<firstname>Daniel</firstname>
<surname>Molkentin</surname>
<affiliation><address>&Daniel.Molkentin.mail;</address></affiliation>
</author>
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</authorgroup>


<copyright>
<year>2003-2005</year><holder>&Cornelius.Schumacher;</holder>
</copyright>

<legalnotice>&FDLNotice;</legalnotice>

<date>2025-12-11</date>
<releaseinfo>6.6.0 (KDE Gear 25.12)</releaseinfo>

<abstract><para>&kontact; is the integrated solution to your personal
information management (&PIM;) needs. It combines well-known &kde;
applications such as &kmail;, &korganizer; and &kaddressbook; into a
single interface to provide easy access to mail, scheduling,
address book and other &PIM; functionality.</para></abstract>

<keywordset>
<keyword>KDE</keyword>
<keyword>kdepim</keyword>
<keyword>KMail</keyword>
<keyword>Organizer</keyword>
<keyword>KAddressBook</keyword>
<keyword>Akregator</keyword>
<keyword>PIM</keyword>
<keyword>groupware</keyword>
<keyword>Outlook</keyword>
<keyword>Evolution</keyword>
</keywordset>

</bookinfo>


<chapter id="introduction">
<title>Introduction</title>

<para>&kontact; is the integrated solution for personal information management.
It combines the well-known &kde; applications for email, scheduling and address book
(&kmail;, &korganizer;, &kaddressbook;) into a single interface. Being based on a
true component framework &kontact; provides exactly the same functionality as the
stand-alone applications, and adds more features, by making use of the integrated
way &kontact; runs the applications as components. Users still retain the choice of
which applications are run within &kontact; and which are run stand-alone.</para>

<para>In addition to the functionality of the individual applications, &kontact;
provides a summary view and advanced drag &amp; drop features between components.
</para>

</chapter>


<chapter id="components">
<title>&kontact; Components</title>

<para>
&kontact; integrates the following applications. See the individual
application manuals for details on how to use them. These apply to
running them as components inside &kontact; just as well as running
them stand-alone.
</para>

<variablelist>
    <varlistentry>
        <term><ulink url="help:/kmail2">&kmail;</ulink></term>
        <listitem><para>The &kde; mail client.</para></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term><ulink url="help:/korganizer">&korganizer;</ulink></term>
        <listitem><para>The &kde; calendar and scheduling application.</para>
            </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term><ulink url="help:/kaddressbook">&kaddressbook;</ulink></term>
        <listitem><para>The &kde; contact manager.</para></listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
        <term><ulink url="help:/akregator">&akregator;</ulink></term>
        <listitem><para>The &kde; RSS feed reader.</para>
            </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
</variablelist>

</chapter>

<chapter id="main-window">
<title>The &kontact; Main Window</title>

<para>The Main Window consists of a side pane on the left showing the icons of
the available components, a main view on the right which contains the main
window of the active component and the usual menu, tool and status bars.</para>

<sect1 id="side-pane">
<title>Side Pane</title>

<para>The Side Pane serves multiple purposes. It allows for switching between
components, shows which component is active and serves as the target for
drag &amp; drop operations to the different applications.</para>

<screenshot>
<screeninfo>&kontact;'s Side Pane</screeninfo>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject><imagedata format="PNG" fileref="side-pane.png" /></imageobject>
<textobject>
<phrase>&kontact;'s Side Pane</phrase>
</textobject>
<caption>
<para>
&kontact;'s Side Pane
</para>
</caption>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>

<para>For switching between components simply click on the corresponding icon.
The main window of the component is shown and the menu, tool and status bars are
adapted to reflect the functionality of the active component. If you activate a
component for the first time there might be a small delay until the main view
is changed, because components are loaded on demand. This means you don't waste
memory for components not in use.</para>

<para>The icons in the Side Pane can also be used as targets for drag &amp; drop
operations. For example, you can drag a mail message from the mail part and
drop it on the icon of the to-do list or the calendar to create a to-do
or event associated with this mail.</para>

<para>Finally, you can change the size of the icons in the Side Pane.
Right-clicking on the Side Pane will give you the option to use Large,
Normal, or Small icons, as well as the option to use text only
instead of icons.</para>

<para>If you dislike the Side Pane, you can simply hide it by dragging the
splitter. An alternative navigation between parts is provided by the
<guilabel>Navigator</guilabel> toolbar, which can be freely positioned. See
<xref linkend="bars" /> for more on the <guilabel>Navigator</guilabel>
toolbar.</para>

</sect1>


<sect1 id="main-view">

<title>Main View</title>

<para>The view on the right which takes up most of the area of the &kontact;
main window shows the active component. This exactly corresponds to the main
window the component uses when run as a stand-alone application. The highlighted
icon in the Side Pane indicates to which application the Main View belongs.
&kontact; remembers the active component when exiting, so the next time
&kontact; starts it initially displays that component in the Main View.</para>

<screenshot>
<screeninfo>&kontact;'s Main View</screeninfo>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject><imagedata format="PNG" fileref="main-view.png"/></imageobject>
<textobject>
<phrase>&kontact;'s Main View</phrase>
</textobject>
<caption>
<para>&kontact;'s Main View</para>
</caption>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>

<para>In addition, there are two ways of overriding the component that &kontact;
starts with. The first is supplying an argument to the &kontact; program call
(see <xref linkend="command-line"/>). The second is a setting in the
&kontact; Settings dialog that will allow you to always start &kontact; in a
certain mode.</para>

<para>To get to it, go to <menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Configure &kontact;</guimenuitem></menuchoice> and click on
<guilabel>Kontact</guilabel> in the list.</para>

<screenshot>
<screeninfo>&kontact; Starting Component Setting</screeninfo>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject><imagedata format="PNG" fileref="configuration-starting-component.png"/></imageobject>
<textobject>
<phrase>&kontact; Starting Component Setting</phrase>
</textobject>
<caption>
<para>&kontact; Starting Component Setting</para>
</caption>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>

</sect1>

<sect1 id="bars">
<title>Menu, Tool and Status Bars</title>

<para>The menu, tool and status bars are adapted to the active component. That
means that, in addition to some common functions like the help menu which are
shown for all components, there are actions which are switched when the active
component is switched. These actions available for each component are the same
as those available when running the application stand-alone.</para>

<screenshot>
<screeninfo>Views of &kontact;'s menubars in the Summary View, Mail View, and
    Calendar View</screeninfo>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
    <imagedata format="PNG" fileref="menu-bar-summary.png"/></imageobject>
<textobject>
<phrase>Views of &kontact;'s menubars in the Summary View, Mail View, and
    Calendar View</phrase>
</textobject>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>

<screenshot>
<screeninfo>Views of &kontact;'s menubars in the Summary View, Mail View, and
    Calendar View</screeninfo>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
    <imagedata format="PNG" fileref="menu-bar-kmail.png"/></imageobject>
<textobject>
<phrase>Views of &kontact;'s menubars in the Summary View, Mail View, and
    Calendar View</phrase>
</textobject>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>

<screenshot>
<screeninfo>Views of &kontact;'s menubars in the Summary View, Mail View, and
    Calendar View</screeninfo>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
    <imagedata format="PNG" fileref="menu-bar-korganizer.png"/></imageobject>
<textobject>
<phrase>Views of &kontact;'s menubars in the Summary View, Mail View, and
    Calendar View</phrase>
</textobject>
<caption>
<para>
    Views of &kontact;'s menubars in the Summary View, Mail View, and Calendar
    View.
</para>
</caption>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>

<para>In addition, &kontact; can show the <guilabel>Navigator</guilabel>
toolbar, which allows you access to the &kontact; components very much as the
Side Pane does. However, unlike the Side Pane, buttons in the
<guilabel>Navigator</guilabel> toolbar cannot be used for drag &amp; drop
operations to other components.</para>

<para>To activate the toolbar, select <menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu>
<guisubmenu>Toolbars Shown</guisubmenu>
<guimenuitem>Navigator</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.
</para>

<screenshot>
<screeninfo>&kontact;'s <guimenuitem>Navigator</guimenuitem>
    toolbar.</screeninfo>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
    <imagedata format="PNG" fileref="navigator-bar-kontact.png"/></imageobject>
<textobject>
<phrase>&kontact;'s <guimenuitem>Navigator</guimenuitem> toolbar.</phrase>
</textobject>
<caption>
<para>
    &kontact;'s <guimenuitem>Navigator</guimenuitem> toolbar.
</para>
</caption>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>

<para>A special action common to all components is the
<guimenuitem>New</guimenuitem> action. It allows creation of new objects
including emails, contacts, appointments and to-dos independently of which
component is active. The component responsible for processing the
selected object is started, if required, and takes over the created
object.</para>

<screenshot>
<screeninfo>&kontact;'s New Menu</screeninfo>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject><imagedata format="PNG" fileref="new-menu.png"/></imageobject>
<textobject>
<phrase>&kontact;'s New Menu</phrase>
</textobject>
<caption>
<para>
&kontact;'s New Menu
</para>
</caption>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>

</sect1>

<sect1 id="side-pane-drag-and-drop">
<title>Drag and Drop Functionality</title>

<para>&kontact; provides advanced drag and drop functionality between
the programs it contains. Following is a brief description of each of
the specific drag and drop operations that can be used and the
result of each.</para>

<sect2 id="side-pane-drag-and-drop-kmail-todo">
<title>&kmail; -&gt; &korganizer; To-do List</title>

<para>
Dragging a message from
<ulink url="help:/kmail2/using-kmail.html#the-mail-reader-window">&kmail;'s Headers pane</ulink>
to the icon for &korganizer;'s To-do list
(<guiicon><inlinemediaobject><imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="todo-list-sidebar-icon.png" format="PNG"/>
</imageobject></inlinemediaobject></guiicon>)
will create a new To-do with
<guilabel>Mail: <replaceable>Subject</replaceable></guilabel> as the title and
<guilabel>From: <replaceable>Sender</replaceable>
To: <replaceable>Receiver</replaceable>
Subject: <replaceable>Subject</replaceable></guilabel> as the contents
(where text that looks <guilabel><replaceable>like
this</replaceable></guilabel> is information
from the message itself), as well as the email message itself as an
attachment.
</para>

</sect2>

<sect2 id="side-pane-drag-and-drop-kmail-calendar">
<title>&kmail; -&gt; &korganizer; Calendar</title>

<para>
Dragging a message from
<ulink url="help:/kmail2/using-kmail.html#the-mail-reader-window">&kmail;'s Headers pane</ulink>
to the icon for &korganizer;'s Calendar
(<guiicon><inlinemediaobject><imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="calendar-sidebar-icon.png" format="PNG"/>
</imageobject></inlinemediaobject></guiicon>)
will create a new Event with
<guilabel>Mail: <replaceable>Subject</replaceable></guilabel> as the title and
<guilabel>From: <replaceable>Sender</replaceable>
To: <replaceable>Receiver</replaceable>
Subject: <replaceable>Subject</replaceable></guilabel> as the contents
(where text that looks <guilabel><replaceable>like
this</replaceable></guilabel> is information
from the message itself), as well as the email message itself as an
attachment.
</para>

<para>Note that dragging onto the To-do button creates a To-do,
whereas dragging onto the Calendar creates an Event. More on this
distinction is available in the
<ulink url="help:/korganizer">&korganizer; documentation</ulink>
</para>

</sect2>


<sect2 id="side-pane-drag-and-drop-kmail-contacts">
<title>&kmail; -&gt; &kaddressbook;</title>

<para>
Dragging a message from
<ulink url="help:/kmail2/using-kmail.html#the-mail-reader-window">&kmail;'s Headers pane</ulink>
 to the icon for &kaddressbook;
(<guiicon><inlinemediaobject><imageobject> <imagedata
                                           fileref="kaddressbook-sidebar-icon.png"
                                           format="PNG" />
</imageobject></inlinemediaobject></guiicon>) will create a contact
from the email address of the sender, unless a contact with that name
already exists. A dialog box notifies you of this action.
</para>


</sect2>


<sect2 id="side-pane-drag-and-drop-kaddressbook-todo">
<title>&kaddressbook; -&gt; &korganizer; To-do List</title>

<para>
Dragging any number of entries from <ulink
url="help:/kaddressbook/using-kaddressbook.html">&kaddressbook;'s main
window</ulink> to the icon for &korganizer;'s To-do List
(<guiicon><inlinemediaobject><imageobject> <imagedata
                                           fileref="todo-list-sidebar-icon.png"
                                           format="PNG"/>
</imageobject></inlinemediaobject></guiicon>) will create a new To-do
with &quot;Meeting&quot; as the title and the selected contacts as
attendees.
</para>

<para>Note that dragging onto the To-do button creates a To-do,
whereas dragging onto the Calendar creates an Event. More on this
distinction is available in the
<ulink url="help:/korganizer">&korganizer; documentation</ulink>
</para>

</sect2>


<sect2 id="side-pane-drag-and-drop-kaddressbook-calendar">
<title>&kaddressbook; -&gt; &korganizer; Calendar</title>

<para>
Dragging any number of entries from <ulink
url="help:/kaddressbook/using-kaddressbook.html">&kaddressbook;'s main
window</ulink> to the icon for &korganizer;'s Calendar
(<guiicon><inlinemediaobject><imageobject> <imagedata
                                           fileref="calendar-sidebar-icon.png"
                                           format="PNG"/>
</imageobject></inlinemediaobject></guiicon>) will create a new Event
with &quot;Meeting&quot; as the title and the selected contacts as
attendees.
</para>

<para>Note that dragging onto the To-do button creates a To-do,
whereas dragging onto the Calendar creates an Event. More on this
distinction is available in the
<ulink url="help:/korganizer">&korganizer; documentation</ulink>
</para>

</sect2>


</sect1>

</chapter>

<chapter id="summary-view">
<title>The Summary View</title>

<para>The default view when starting &kontact; for the first time is the Summary
View. It shows an overview of the most relevant information provided by the
selected &kontact; components. These can be imminent appointments or birthdays,
due to-dos, new messages &etc; Which information is shown is configurable by
selecting the corresponding components in the <link linkend="configuration">
&kontact; configuration dialog</link>.</para>

<screenshot>
<screeninfo>&kontact;'s Summary View</screeninfo>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject><imagedata format="PNG" fileref="summary-view.png"/></imageobject>
<textobject>
<phrase>&kontact;'s Summary View</phrase>
</textobject>
<caption>
<para>
&kontact;'s Summary View
</para>
</caption>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>

<!-- not in kde4 para>If you think the information you see is outdated, you can click on the
<guibutton>Refresh</guibutton> button (<guiicon><inlinemediaobject><imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="summary-view-refresh-button.png" format="PNG"/>
</imageobject></inlinemediaobject></guiicon>)
in the Summary View toolbar to refresh
the data.</para-->

<sect1 id="summary-view-component-reposition">
<title>Repositioning Summary View Components</title>

<para>The Summary View allows you to change where the
components are in the view itself. So, if you prefer to
have your Special Dates in the lower left and your To-dos in
the upper right, you can rearrange the Summary View to
reflect that.</para>

<para>Repositioning components in the Summary View is as simple
as dragging them to the new location you want them to be in. Hold down the
&Ctrl; key, click and hold on the gray title area of the component and drag
the component to wherever you want it to be. Note that this positioning is done
compared to other components. So you can move the Mail component to be
below the To-do component in the view, but you cannot place it in a specific
position. If you have only one component in your Summary View, the only option
is to move it between the two columns of the view; two components can either
be two in one column or one in each column; and so on and so forth. Whenever
you are dragging a component, you will see a small preview box following your
mouse around showing you the component.</para>

<screenshot>
<screeninfo>Rearranging &kontact;'s Summary View</screeninfo>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject><imagedata format="PNG" fileref="summary-view-repositioning.png"/></imageobject>
<textobject>
<phrase>Rearranging &kontact;'s Summary View</phrase>
</textobject>
<caption>
<para>
Rearranging &kontact;'s Summary View
</para>
</caption>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>
</sect1>

</chapter>


<chapter id="configuration">
<title>Configuring &kontact;</title>

<sect1 id="main-config">
<title>&kontact; Configuration Window</title>

<para>When selecting the <guimenuitem>Configure &kontact;</guimenuitem>
action from the <guimenu>Settings</guimenu> menu, the &kontact;
configuration dialog is shown. It provides a list of the
configurations for all the active components of &kontact;. You can
click the <guilabel>&gt;</guilabel> symbol next to the component name to
expand the tree so that you can view the options for that
component. Selecting one of the configuration
options under a heading will bring up that configuration section on
the right.</para>

<screenshot>
<screeninfo>&kontact;'s Configuration Window</screeninfo>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject><imagedata format="PNG" fileref="configuration-main.png"/></imageobject>
<textobject>
<phrase>&kontact;'s Configuration Window</phrase>
</textobject>
<caption>
<para>
&kontact;'s Configuration Window
</para>
</caption>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>

<para>By checking the box next to the component title you select the
component to be visible in the Side Pane and the Summary View. The
component is loaded and shown in the Main Window when
clicking on its icon in the Side Pane. By
unchecking the check box the component is removed from the Side Pane and
Summary View. Changes become effective by clicking the
<guibutton>Apply</guibutton> or <guibutton>OK</guibutton>
buttons.</para>

<para>You can also configure individual components by clicking on the
corresponding icon in the Side Pane and then selecting the menu item
<guimenuitem>Configure <replaceable>application name</replaceable></guimenuitem>
from the <guimenu>Settings</guimenu> menu.</para>

<screenshot>
<screeninfo>&kontact; Settings Menu When &kmail; is Selected</screeninfo>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata format="PNG" fileref="settings-menu-kmail.png"/>
</imageobject>
<textobject>
<phrase>&kontact; Settings Menu When &kmail; is Selected</phrase>
</textobject>
<caption>
<para>
&kontact; Settings Menu When &kmail; is Selected
</para>
</caption>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>

</sect1>

<sect1 id="summary-view-config">
<title>Configuring &kontact;'s Summary View</title>

<para>When you select <guilabel>Summaries</guilabel>
in the &kontact; settings dialog, a page is displayed that allows you to select which summary
plugins &kontact; should show in its summary view.
Here is a brief list of the currently available plugins and what they do:
</para>

<screenshot>
<screeninfo>Summary Selection</screeninfo>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata format="PNG" fileref="summary-selection.png"/>
</imageobject>
<textobject>
<phrase>Summary Selection</phrase>
</textobject>
<caption><para>Summary Selection</para></caption>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>

<sect2 id="summary-view-config-calendar">
<title>&kontact; Summary Plugins: Calendar</title>

<para>
The <quote>Calendar</quote> plugin for &kontact;'s Summary View adds
an area in the view labeled <guilabel>Upcoming Events</guilabel>. This
will display any events that currently apply.
</para>

<screenshot>
<screeninfo>&kontact; Calendar Summary Plugin</screeninfo>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata format="PNG" fileref="summary-view-calendar.png"/>
</imageobject>
<textobject>
<phrase>&kontact; Calendar Summary Plugin</phrase>
</textobject>
<caption>
<para>
&kontact; Calendar Summary Plugin
</para>
</caption>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>
</sect2>

<sect2 id="summary-view-config-mail">
<title>&kontact; Summary Plugins: Mail</title>

<para>
The <quote>Mail</quote> plugin for &kontact;'s Summary View adds an
area in the view labeled <guilabel>New Messages</guilabel>. This area
is updated every time you receive new messages to inform you how many
of these messages there are and which folder they are in.
</para>

<screenshot>
<screeninfo>&kontact; Mail Summary Plugin</screeninfo>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata format="PNG" fileref="summary-view-mail.png"/>
</imageobject>
<textobject>
<phrase>&kontact; Mail Summary Plugin</phrase>
</textobject>
<caption>
<para>
&kontact; Mail Summary Plugin
</para>
</caption>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>
</sect2>


<sect2 id="summary-view-config-todo-list">
<title>&kontact; Summary Plugins: To-do List</title>

<para>
The <quote>To-do List</quote> plugin for &kontact;'s Summary View adds
an area in the view labeled <guilabel>Pending To-dos</guilabel>. This area
contains all current to-dos, including ones that have been completed.
It displays the title of the to-do, the percentage of completion, and
the current status of the to-do. Note that you can purge all completed
to-dos via the &kontact; To-do List. Clicking on a to-do's title will
currently do nothing.
</para>

<screenshot>
<screeninfo>&kontact; To-do List Summary Plugin</screeninfo>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata format="PNG" fileref="summary-view-todos.png"/>
</imageobject>
<textobject>
<phrase>&kontact; To-do List Summary Plugin</phrase>
</textobject>
<caption>
<para>
&kontact; To-do List Summary Plugin
</para>
</caption>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>
</sect2>

<sect2 id="summary-view-config-special-dates">
<title>&kontact; Summary Plugins: Special Dates</title>

<para>
The <quote>Special Dates</quote> plugin for &kontact;'s Summary View adds an
area in the view labeled <guilabel>Upcoming Special Dates</guilabel>.
This area contains information based on the criteria selected in the
configuration area of the plugin in &kontact;'s Summary View configuration.
The <quote>Special Dates</quote> plugin is especially useful because it can
display birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, and special occasions from both
the calendar and the contact list in one place.
</para>

<screenshot>
<screeninfo>&kontact; Special Dates Plugin</screeninfo>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata format="PNG" fileref="summary-view-special-dates.png"/>
</imageobject>
<textobject>
<phrase>&kontact; Special Dates Plugin</phrase>
</textobject>
<caption>
<para>
&kontact; Special Dates Plugin
</para>
</caption>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>
</sect2>
</sect1>

</chapter>


<chapter id="command-line">
<title>&kontact; On the Command Line</title>

<para>&kontact; has several command line arguments
that can be used for certain actions.</para>

<para>First of all, &kontact; supports command line arguments
that all &kde-frameworks;/&Qt; applications support, see the man pages qt6options and kf6options.
</para>

<para>&kontact; also supports several command line arguments
specific to it.</para>

<sect1 id="command-line-arguments">
<title>Command Line Arguments</title>

<sect2 id="command-line-module">
<title>Module-related Arguments</title>

<para>To get a list of available &kontact; modules, you can type:</para>

<para>
<prompt>&percnt;</prompt> <command>kontact --list</command>
</para>

<para>Then, to start &kontact; with a module active, type:</para>

<para>
<prompt>&percnt;</prompt> <command>kontact --module <replaceable>moduleName</replaceable></command>
</para>

<para>Where <replaceable>moduleName</replaceable> is one of the modules obtained using the
previous command.</para>

</sect2>

<sect2 id="command-line-startup">
<title>Startup-related Arguments</title>

<para>To start &kontact; in iconified mode<footnote><para>Iconified mode is also
called minimized; it is when the application window is hidden and the
application is available only in the taskbar.</para></footnote>, you can
type:</para>

<para>
<prompt>&percnt;</prompt> <command>kontact --iconify</command>
</para>

</sect2>

</sect1>

</chapter>


<chapter id="technology">
<title>Under The Hood</title>

<para>&kontact; makes extensive use of several &kde; key technologies, most
notably KParts and &DBus;.</para>

<para>The &GUI; integration of the components is done by plugins
providing KParts versions of the applications. This only needs a thin
additional layer on top of the already existing code of the
stand-alone applications.</para>

<para>For communication between the components &DBus; is used. This
has the nice characteristic that it is completely transparent to
whether the application is run stand-alone or embedded as KPart into
&kontact;. When running inside of &kontact; an efficient in-process
mode of &DBus; is used.</para>

</chapter>


<chapter id="credits">
<title>Credits and License</title>

<para>&kontact;</para>

<para>Program copyright 2001-2025, The &kde; Developers</para>

<para>Contributors:</para>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>&Cornelius.Schumacher; &Cornelius.Schumacher.mail;</para>
    </listitem>
<listitem><para>&Daniel.Molkentin; &Daniel.Molkentin.mail;</para>
    </listitem>
<listitem><para>&Don.Sanders; &Don.Sanders.mail;</para>
    </listitem>
<listitem><para>&Tobias.Koenig; &Tobias.Koenig.mail;</para>
    </listitem>
<listitem><para>Allen Winter <email>winter@kde.org</email></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Rafael Fernández López <email>ereslibre@kde.org</email></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>&David.Faure; &David.Faure.mail;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>&Ingo.Kloecker; &Ingo.Kloecker.mail;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Sven Lüppken <email>sven@kde.org</email></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Torgny Nyblom <email>nyblom@kde.org</email></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Zack Rusin <email>zack@kde.org</email></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Matthias Hölzer-Klüpfel <email>mhk@kde.org</email>, the
original author of the &kontact; framework.</para>
    </listitem>

<listitem><para>All the valued developers of the applications &kontact; is
integrating. They did almost all the work.</para>
    </listitem>
</itemizedlist>

<para>Documentation copyright 2004-2005</para>

<para>Contributors:

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>&Cornelius.Schumacher; &Cornelius.Schumacher.mail;</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>Antonio Salazar <email>savedfastcool@gmail.com</email></para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>&Daniel.Molkentin; &Daniel.Molkentin.mail;</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>All the members of the &kde; documentation list who
assisted with markup and style issues.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>

<!-- TRANS:CREDIT_FOR_TRANSLATORS -->
&underFDL;
&underGPL;

</chapter>

<appendix id="kontact-admin">
<title>Administrator's Guide</title>
<!-- Section Compatibility -->
<sect1 id="compat">
<title>Compatibility Issues</title>

<para>
This section provides help with how to make &kontact;
communicate effectively with various groupware solutions.
</para>

<sect2 id="compat-outlook">
<title>Outlook and Exchange</title>

<para>
In the &kontact; configuration dialog, under <menuchoice><guimenu>Mail</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Misc</guimenuitem></menuchoice> on the <guilabel>Invitations</guilabel> page
you will find the following options that will help the user communicate
with Microsoft Outlook(tm) running in a Kolab environment or in a
Microsoft Exchange(tm) environment.
</para>

<variablelist>

<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Mangle From:/To: headers in replies to invitations</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>Enable this option to make Microsoft Outlook(tm) understand your answers to invitation replies.</para>
<para>Microsoft Outlook has a number of shortcomings in its implementation of
the iCalendar standard; this option works around one of them. If you
have problems with Outlook users not being able to get your replies,
try setting this option.</para>
<para>Details: When mailing an iCal invitation this makes the message have
the From: header the same as the To: header. It also sets header
 X-KMail-Identity to the To:'s UIOD and makes sure the BCC: is blank.
Outlook will only understand the reply if the From: header is
the same as the To: header of the invitation message.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Send invitations in the mail body</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>Invitations are normally sent as attachments to a mail. This switch
changes the invitation to be sent in the text of the mail instead;
this is necessary to send invitations and replies to Microsoft Outlook.
But, when you do this, you no longer get descriptive text that mail
programs can read; so, to people who have email programs that do not
understand the invitations, the resulting messages look very odd.
People that have email programs that do understand invitations will
still be able to work with this.</para>
<para>Details: When mailing an iCal invitation this option makes the
message body from the attachment data and sets the Content-Type header
to 'text/calendar; method=something; charset="utf-8"'.</para>
<para>Auto-sending is also turned on so there is no human intervention
required for composing.</para>
<note><para>Encryption and self-signing are disabled.</para></note>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Exchange-compatible invitation naming</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>Microsoft Outlook, when used in combination with a Microsoft Exchange(tm)
server, has a problem understanding standards-compliant groupware email.
Enable this option to send groupware invitations in a way that Microsoft
Exchange(tm) understands. The invitation will be sent as an attachment with name
<filename>ical.ics</filename>.</para>
<para>Details: When mailing an iCal invitation this makes
the message have the subject "(Declined|Tentative|Accepted|Delegated): subject".
The invitation will be sent as an attachment with name <filename>ical.ics</filename>.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Outlook-compatible attachment naming</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>Turn this option on to make Outlook(tm) understand attachment names
containing non-English characters.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

</variablelist>

</sect2>
</sect1>

<!-- Section Behavior -->
<sect1 id="behavior">
<title>Behavioral Issues</title>

<para>
This section provides instructions on how to make &kontact;
behave more like other groupware clients.
</para>

<sect2 id="behave-composing">
<title>Composing Messages</title>

<para>
Outlook users are accustomed to typing a list of addresses in the To:,
CC: or BCC: fields separated by a semicolon (';') character in addition
to a comma (','). By default, &kontact; only allows the comma as an address
separator character. To also allow the semicolon, change the
<option>AllowSemicolonAsAddressSeparator</option> from false to true
in the installed <filename>share/config.kcfg/messagecomposer.kcfg</filename> file.
</para>

</sect2>
</sect1>

<!-- Section RFC Compromises -->
<sect1 id="nonrfc">
<title>RFC Compromises</title>

<para>&kontact; is designed to interoperate as well as is possible
with a wide variety of groupware solutions. To that end, we sometimes
make design compromises with respect to the various Internet RFCs
that provide the basis for low-level libraries on which &kontact;
relies heavily.</para>

<note><para>We never knowingly violate any RFC.</para></note>

<para>The following list of RFC compromises is made by &kontact; or
the low-levels libraries used by &kontact;:</para>
<!--FIXME is this correct?-->
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
When writing duration values into iCalendar files, &kontact; never
writes the DURATION property in terms of weeks (i.e., 1*DIGIT "W");
instead, the integer number of weeks is always multiplied by 7 and written
in terms of days (i.e. 1*DIGIT "D").
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>

</sect1>

</appendix>

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