Problems with natty kontact and calendars

[Thomas Olsen]

On Thursday 19 May 2011 17:59:00 D. R. Evans wrote:
> Since the update to natty destroyed all my settings, I've been trying to
> rebuild everything back the way it used to be (more or less).
> 
> I'm now trying to configure Kontact, but have hit a problem.
> 
> I imported a remote calendar (using webdav), but there are several problems
> (probably all with a single cause):
> 
> 1. Events on the calendar display OK, but the calendar seems to be
> read-only; 2. There seems to be no way to synchronise the remote calendar
> 3. There seems to be no way to remove the remote calendar from Kontact.
> 
> It used to be that my calendars were displayed in a panel in the bottom
> left kontact panel, which would allow me to control each calendar easily.
> But that no longer seems to be true (I can't find anywhere where the remote
> calendar is listed anywhere -- I thought that maybe Settings | Sidebar |
> Show Calendar Manager would be the secret, but that doesn't seem to change
> anything at all on the display).
> 
> The Help suggests that Settings → Sidebar → Show Resource View and
> Settings → Sidebar → Show Resource Buttons need to be checked... but those
> options simply don't exist under Settings → Sidebar :-(
> 
> Any help greatly appreciated. (All this worked fine before the natty
> upgrade.)
> 
>   Doc

I haven't upgraded to Natty but try to look under System Settings/Common 
Appearance and Behavior/Personal Information/Calendar.
Not very intuitive to change "Configure KDE resources" to "Personal 
Information" :-/
I always use akonadiconsole when I need to reconfigure the resources.

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Thomas Olsen

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