Re: [Knokiisync-users] Names with spaces

[Dimitris S. <dim...@li...>]

On Sunday 03 August 2003 21:03, Guillaume du Manoir wrote:
> > True - it does seem to crash when reading your KAB. I can't reproduce it
> > in some way, so all I can guess for now is that it's a problem of kabc.
>
> But it's not crashing with 0.3.0 ?!

Maybe you upgraded KDE or changed something in between? I haven't altered the 
KAB code between 0.3.0 and 0.3.1.

>
> > Try to run kbuildsycoca before running knokiisync - maybe that will help.
>
> What is kbuildsyscoca exactly ? How do I run it before ?

Not sure exactly myself - I do remember having problems running koffice apps 
(crashes, random errors, etc). Then this guy tells me to run kbuildsyscoca, 
and woosh - everything's fine.

>
> I tried again to modify one entry (in 0.3.1), to set the first name and
> last name right in the right column. Then I quit, and start knokiisync
> again. The entry has still the full name in one column :(
>
> I don't know what I'm doing wrong...

Please tell me how the entry appears in your phone, and then copy/paste the 
relevant section of .knokiisyncrc in the same mail. 

>
> Even if this way of doing it is working (not for me for now), it means that
> knokiisync is storing in its config file for each entry how to sort out the
> first name and last name from the full name.
> It's seems a little redundant to me, isn't it ?

What knokiisync does, is that for each entry that is _not_ in the correct 
format, it stores an entry like this:

[Entry_YYY_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX]
InPhone="John T. Smith"
Name="John"
Surname="T. Smith"

Where YYY is the position in the phone's memory, and XXX... is the phone's 
IMEI. Name and Surname are set by the user when he double clicks the 
appropriate columns. This is so far the only "suitable solution" I could come 
up with.

>
> So each time I enter a new entry in my phone, I would have to retype it
> correctly in knokiisync for kaddressbook to get it ? (In the case it's a
> multi-word name of course)

Er...yes. As always, I'm eager to hear better solutions :-)

>
> I like the way to put a coma (or a double space ?) between the firstname
> and the lastname, so that I only have to enter the info once (thus
> knokiisync has an easy way to separate the first name from the last name :
> just a split on the comma (or double space)...)
>
> What is your point of view ?

It kinda sounds like a "Master Override". Not bad actually :-)
I'll make a note on that, and if it doesn't create more problems than it 
solves (code-wise), then it's propably in.

> Guillaume

Dimitris
(Vacations, at last!)