Kontact for Windows (Enterprise-5)

From Kolab wiki

After prototyping a first Version of a Kontact Client for Microsoft Windows in 2009 Kontact_for_Windows_(beta-huge-debug), development is still going on to provide a stable Version of Kontact for Windows, including the Akonadi backed KMail2.

WARNING:
This is an release targeted to developers and experienced users,
who want to get an overview or help developing KDE Kontact enterprise5 (a native Kolab Client). 
It is _not_ recommended for production use, but only for testing! 
Keep a backup of your precious data!

The most recent experimental Versions can be downloaded at:

http://files.kolab.org/clients/kontact-enterprise5/windows/experimental

in the form of a single Installer Package. Make sure to read the corresponding README file.

KDE Kontact is Free Software under various copyrights and licenses, for details see the files coming with the distributions and the sources.

General Hints

Delete all configuration

To delete all configuration files remove the folders .local .config .kde in your userdata directory. (e.g. c:\documents and settings\testuser\ on xp c:\users\testuser on win7) Also delete .kde in your application data directory (e.g. c:\documents and settings\testuser\Applicationdata on xp c:\users\testuser\Applicationdata\roaming on win7)

Switch to English

To change the application language of Kontact from German to English please use a text editor and change the locale settings in the file 'kdeglobals' to:

 Country=en
 Language=en_US

and restart all KDE processes (esp. logout, login). You'll find this file usually under the installed directory in 'Kontact\share\config' (e.g. c:\Program Files\Kontact\share\config\kdeglobals).

Or goto: help -> change application language

Backtrace for Crash reporting

If you encounter crashes, a backtrace might help the developers to find the defect faster. There are some hints doing a backtrace with gdb on windows in https://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Debugging/Debugging_on_MS_Windows#MinGW_debugging_hints

Diagnostics

DebugView and some other tools from the following URL can be useful to diagnose problems: https://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KDE_on_Windows/Tools

DebugView will let you see the message of the KDE runtime system, which on GNU/Linux you can see on stdout or stderr.

Update to a newer version

To update to a newer version, uninstall the old version and reinstall the new version.

Kontact and gpg4win

Kontact enterprise5 integrates with gnupg provided by the gpg4win initiative get it under http://gpg4win.de to enable SMIME and OpenPGP encryption.