The Kontact Handbook

The Kontact Handbook

Cornelius Schumacher (schumacher kde.org)

Antonio Salazar (savedfastcool gmail.com)

Daniel Molkentin (molkentin kde.org)

Revision 1.1.1 (2005-09-04)

Copyright © 2003-2005 Cornelius Schumacher

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

Menu, Tool and Status Bars

Drag and Drop Functionality

KMail -> KOrganizer To-do List
KMail -> KOrganizer Calendar
KMail -> KAddressBook
KAddressBook -> KOrganizer To-do List
KAddressBook -> KOrganizer Calendar

Keyboard Shortcuts

4. The Summary View

Repositioning Summary View Components

5. Configuring Kontact

Kontact Configuration Window

Configuring Kontact's Summary View

Kontact Summary Plugins: Calendar
Kontact Summary Plugins: KPilot
Kontact Summary Plugins: Mail
Kontact Summary Plugins: NewsTicker
Kontact Summary Plugins: Notes
Kontact Summary Plugins: To-do List
Kontact Summary Plugins: Special Dates
Kontact Summary Plugins: Weather

6. Kontact On the Command Line

Command Line Arguments

Module-related Arguments
Startup-related Arguments

7. Under The Hood

8. Credits and License

Introduction