The Kontact Handbook

Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher@kde.org>

Antonio Salazar <flossadvocate@bellsouth.net>

Revision 0.9 (2004-06-29)

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Kontact is the integrated solution to your personal information management (PIM) needs. It combines well-known KDE applications like KMail, KOrganizer and KAddressBook into a single interface to provide easy access to mail, scheduling, address book and other PIM functionality.


Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Kontact Components
3. The Kontact Main Window
Side Pane
Main View
Menu, Tool and Status Bars
Drag and Drop Functionality
KMail -> KOrganizer Todo List
KMail -> KOrganizer Calendar
KMail -> KAddressBook
KAddressBook -> KOrganizer Todo List
KAddressBook -> KOrganizer Calendar
4. The Summary View
5. Configuring Kontact
Kontact Configuration Window
Configuring Kontact's Summary View
Kontact Summary Plugins: Calendar
Kontact Summary Plugins: Contacts
Kontact Summary Plugins: KPilot
Kontact Summary Plugins: Mail
Kontact Summary Plugins: Notes
Kontact Summary Plugins: Todo List
Kontact Summary Plugins: Weather
6. Kontact On the Command Line
Command Line Arguments
Module-related Arguments
Splash-related Arguments
7. Under The Hood
8. Credits and License