Free kaddressbook software for linux

KAddressBook is a comfortable frontend to organize the addresses of your friends, business partners, etc.

KAddressBook allows you to import and export adressbook files, offers a function to search for adresses and - which is the most important feature: it is fully integrated into the K Desktop Enviroment and interacts with other KDE applications like e.g. KMail.

KAddressBook is part of the kdepim package.

Kontact Personal Information Management suite unites mature and proven KDE applications (called components in the context) under one roof. Thanks to the powerful KParts technology, all components are seamlessly integrated into one application.
The components of KDE Kontact are all shaped to work nice with each other. This results in features like intuitive drag n dropping between components and appointment handling, task lists and contacts.
KDE Kontact also extends its components with support for various groupware servers. When using these servers your workgroup will have 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.
Main features:
The Summary Component
- This component is specially made for KDE Kontact. It provides both an overview of the other components and a selection of information gathered from the internet like weather info and headlines. In fact any RDF news feed can be added.
The Mail Component
- The mail component is provided by KMail, the KDE mail client -- a straight forward mail client that comes with all features you would expect.
The Calendar Component
- It is quite obvious that KOrganizer, again very mature KDE application, gets used as the calendar component. This feature-rich program is so easy to use and intuitive that you will quickly adopt it as your personal organizer. Extended with groupware functionality it can boost the communication within every workgroup.
The Contacts Component
- As the name implies: this component manages your valued contacts. The application providing this component is KAddressbook, a program that is deeply rooted into KDE. It was integrated in KMail and KOrganizer even before the KDE Kontact project was started
The Notes Component
- This component serves as your infinite block of digital sticky notes. Your can stick them on your desktop and they say visible even after closing KDE Kontact.
The News Component
- This straight forward, full-featured news reader is provided by KNode, KDEs default news reader.
The Sync Component
- KitchenSync, KDEs universal syncing application provides a framework for syncing with all kinds of devices. On one side it will have a plugin based interface with your mobile devices, like: PDAs and smart phones. On the other side it has conduits for connecting with other KDE Kontact components and external applications. The Sync component, provided by KitchenSync, is currently being implemented, therefore KitchenSync is not yet considered to be stable. Till the day that KitchenSync takes over we have two very nice applications that seamlessly integrate with KDE Kontact: KPilot for syncing with Palm compatible devices and Kandy for syncing with several mobile phone types. Eventually, KitchenSync will become a universal syncing framework.

Kisdnmonitor is an applet for your KDE-desktop environment, it shows the status of the B-Channels and logs the calls (incoming and outgoing) with the duration and the costs and some other information.
It uses the standard KDE-addressbook to avoid annoying duplicities, and it retrieves on the fly the relevant information, it even shows the email addresses defined for the addressbook entry that called.
You can print your log lists as viewed on the screen, you can change the row order and the sorting order, this will be reflected in the final printout.
Main features:
- It monitors the B-Channels of your ISDN-Cards (version > 0.3b multi-monitoring)
- show each incoming call in a popup window
- show each outgoing call in a popup window
- show the calls while the user absent and logged out (the pc has still to be powered on)
- show the duration of a call
- show the costs of the outgoing calls
- show a list of all calls with editing and find options
- printing the list in the row order and sorting order youve setup
- totals are calculated (time, duration, costs)
- linked to kaddressbook (edit, insert)
- mail addresse(s) of the caller in the contextmenu (if available)
- configuring of the main window (toolbars)
Enhancements:
- now compiles with GCC 3.3.3-2

Callintegrator project uses the phone numbers in your address book to initiate a call via services like peterzahlt.de or freecall.com.
Just click on the phone number and your phone rings. Setup is very easy. Currently, only freecall.com and peterzahlt.de are supported.
Usage:
The package comes with two programs: callintegrator and initcall. initcall setups the call, so to speak it does the real work. It can be started with command line parameters or it takes them out of a configuration file ~/.callintegrator. callintegrator is a Qt4 GUI to set these parameters. If the same parameter is set in the configuration file and as a command line switch the value given per command line switch will be used.
After installation start callintegrator and enter the parameter values.
Now integrate callintegrator into your address book. For kaddressbook do the following: Open kaddressbook and goto Settings -> Configure Address Book -> General -> Script Hooks -> Phone. Enter initcall < options > -t "%N". Since all parameters are stored in the config file there is usually no need to enter any options here.
Enhancements:
- support of voipbuster.com

Khalkhi applet for Kicker is an applet for direct access to your addressbook entries! Place buttons for single entries, for lists by category or for the whole list of entries in your addressbook onto a Kicker panel.
See the status in the several systems a person has an account in, by the symbol on the button! Do a lot of things, like surfing to her homepage, starting an email or a chat by a click on the button! Or drop the list button of all your school friends a file/url to send it to them!
By the right mouse button menu you can add and remove the buttons, configure them and the whole applet, or start the KAddressBook.
The applet is based upon the Khalkhi framework, thus endlessly extendable by plugins. You need to first install the framework:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=54450
You might also want to install the cards server:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=54452
Needs version 0.2.2 of the Khalkhi framework (see link above).
Enhancements:
- adaption to rename of Contacts framework to Khalkhi framework
- added: configurable presentation of status changes