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'''Kontact''' is the integrated Personal Information Manager of KDE, but can be used with other systems as well.
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The Kontact suite is the powerful PIM solution of KDE that handles your email, agenda, contacts and other 'personal' data together in one place. Kontact delivers innovations to help you manage your communications more easily, organize your work faster and work together more closely, resulting in more productivity and efficiency in digital collaboration.


Kontact suite unites mature and proven KDE PIM applications under one roof. Thanks to the powerful [[Glossary#KPart|KPart]] technology, existing applications are seamlessly integrated into one.
== Components == <!--T:5-->
 
The components of KDE Kontact are tailored to work well with each other. This results in features like intuitive drag-and-drop between appointment handling, task lists and contacts. KDE Kontact supports various groupware servers. When using these servers your workgroup has access to features like shared email folders, group task lists, calendar sharing, central addressbooks and meeting scheduling.
 
In short: KDE Kontact delivers innovations to help you manage your communications more easily, organize your work faster and work together more closely, resulting in more productivity and efficiency in digital collaboration.


== Components ==
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These programs can be integrated into Kontact:
KDE Kontact supports various groupware servers. When using these servers your workgroup has access to features like shared email folders, group task lists, calendar sharing, central address books and meeting scheduling.
* [[Akregator]] - Read your favorite feeds
* [[KAddressBook]] - Manage your contacts
* [[KJots]] - Your ideas organised in a Notebook
* [[KMail]] - Mail client
* [[KNode]] - Your usenet mail reader
* [[KNotes]] - Sticky notes for your Desktop
* [[KOrganizer]] - Calendar and scheduling, Journal
* [[Ktimetracker]] - Track how much time you spend on various tasks
* [[Summary]] - Summary screen in Kontact


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Kontact consists of the Kontact PIM back end and the graphical applications connecting to the back end. Special 'agents' (say a facebook agent) are employed to get new data in and merge it in the existing data set (for example contacts, news). Due to the clean infrastructure new agents are easy to develop.


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These programs together form Kontact:
* [[Special:myLanguage/Akregator|Akregator]] - Read your favorite feeds
* [[Special:myLanguage/KAddressBook/index|KAddressBook]] - Manage your contacts
* [[Special:myLanguage/KMail|KMail]] - Mail client
* [[Special:myLanguage/KNotes|KNotes]] - Sticky notes for your Desktop
* [[Special:myLanguage/KOrganizer|KOrganizer]] - Calendar and scheduling, Journal
* [[Special:myLanguage/Summary|Summary]] - Summary screen in Kontact
* [[Special:myLanguage/KJots|KJots]] - Your ideas organized in a Notebook


== See also ==
==Where to get help== <!--T:9-->
* [[Kontact/SMS]]
:: * How to send SMS using Kontact


==Where to get help==
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Documentation for Kontact is [https://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdepim/kontact/index.html available here].<br />
The KDE community forum is [https://forum.kde.org/ here.]


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There is a mailing list at
There is a mailing list at


::* '''kdepim-users''' - for users of the KDE PIM applications (Kontact, KAddressBook, KMail, KOrganizer, KNode, ...) [[https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kdepim-users subscribe to kdepim-users]] [[http://lists.kde.org/?l=kdepim-users&r=1&w=2 archive of kdepim-users]].   A team of developers and user aim to give answers as quickly as possible.
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* '''kdepim-users''' - for users of the KDE PIM applications (Kontact, KAddressBook, KMail, KOrganizer, ...) [https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kdepim-users subscribe to kdepim-users] [http://lists.kde.org/?l=kdepim-users&r=1&w=2 archive of kdepim-users]. A team of developers and users aim to give answers as quickly as possible
and for urgent help, an IRC channel on Freenode
 
::For users and developers of Kontact - #kontact
 
==FAQ, Hints and Tips==
===Migrating your setup to a new distro===
In Kmail, right click on
your Inbox and choose Properties. Go the Maintenance Tab. Have a look at the
Location. It has either .kde4 or .kde in the path.
 
Substitute the appropriate path below.
 
You need the following config files:
 
:* .kde4/share/config/emaildefaults
:* .kde4/share/config/emailidentities
:* .kde4/share/config/kmail.eventsrc
:* .kde4/share/config/kmailrc
:* .kde4/share/config/kaddressbookrc
:* .kde4/share/config/kresources/contact
:* .kde4/share/config/korgacrc
:* .kde4/share/config/korganizerrc
:* .kde4/share/config/knotesrc
:* .kde4/share/config/mailtransports
 
and the following directories:
 
:* .kde4/share/apps/kmail
:* .kde4/share/apps/kabc
:* .kde4/share/apps/korganizer
:* .kde4/share/apps/knotes


If you use Akregator within Kontact, you will also need:
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:* .kde4/share/config/akregator.eventsrc
and for urgent help, an IRC channel on Libera Chat
:* .kde4/share/config/akregatorrc
and the whole .kde4/share/apps/akregator directory.


Of course the simplest way is just to keep your whole $home directory. :-)
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*for users and developers of Kontact - #kontact


Just a word of warning. If the directory naming is different between Desktops
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or between the two versions of Fedora, this will not work as there are
{{KontactInstall|Kontact}}
references to the directories within the config files. This means that if the
files were in a .kde directory, you cannot just put them in a .kde4 directory
without editing the references within the config files.


===Hiding the Kontact Sidebar===
== More Information == <!--T:58-->
On small screens, you may wish to reclaim the space used by the Kontact sidebar.  You can replace it with an (editable) toolbar:


# Settings->Toolbars->Navigator [x]
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# Drag the left panel closed using the splitter between it and the main panel, job done.
* [https://kontact.kde.org/ Kontact website]
* [https://docs.kde.org/index.php?language=en&package=pim All the manuals for KDE PIM]


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[[Category:Office]]
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Latest revision as of 16:49, 27 July 2021

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 Kontact is the integrated Personal Information Manager of KDE, but can be used with other systems as well.

It supports email, address books, calendars, tasks, news feeds and much more.

The Kontact suite is the powerful PIM solution of KDE that handles your email, agenda, contacts and other 'personal' data together in one place. Kontact delivers innovations to help you manage your communications more easily, organize your work faster and work together more closely, resulting in more productivity and efficiency in digital collaboration.

Components

KDE Kontact supports various groupware servers. When using these servers your workgroup has access to features like shared email folders, group task lists, calendar sharing, central address books and meeting scheduling.

Kontact consists of the Kontact PIM back end and the graphical applications connecting to the back end. Special 'agents' (say a facebook agent) are employed to get new data in and merge it in the existing data set (for example contacts, news). Due to the clean infrastructure new agents are easy to develop.

These programs together form Kontact:

Where to get help

Documentation for Kontact is available here.
The KDE community forum is here.

There is a mailing list at

and for urgent help, an IRC channel on Libera Chat

  • for users and developers of Kontact - #kontact

Download

Kontact is available in all major Linux distribution repositories, as tarballs, and soon a Flatpak version will also be available. Ancient versions were compatible with Windows, the Kontact team is looking for help to improve Windows support. For more information look at the Kontact download page.

Installation Instructions
If you need help to install Kontact, look at this tutorial about how to install KDE software.


More Information

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