That's pretty much a good explanation. I did not get into the development side 
of the problem with kontact. I was told by the administrators that a patch was 
available, it was applied to my version and distribution (I enabled testing 
repositories), but the problem was not fixed (any of them). 

I later discovered that everyone had to wait until the distribution updated 
kontact/mail/etc.  You can go to the kbug system and search for my name to find 
the message threads.  I did get into the development side or could even get a 
copy of the kontact application. Seems it is tied to the whole kde system.

I'm sure if one digs enough and puts enough effort into it you can apply the 
fixes and build the kontact system independently. I just didn't have time to do 
it.

Anyway, due to other problems with the Fedora distribution and community 
references I chose to go back to openSuse even though it is a company managed 
distribution.  Don't get me wrong, Fedora is a fantastic distribution and so 
is Red Hat (and a great company); I just believe and have experienced more 
support through Suse and Novell over the years.  I have also been a beta 
tester for several projects including SLED.

This is also another reason why my company would like to roll our own 
distribution.  We have a couple of internal products for project management 
and source code management that gives us (it should and I hope it does), a new 
way to look at the over all project and manage the project and source code as 
well as document stuff.  Not to make a shameless promotion, but we will release 
the product within the year publicly with an open source version, of course.

I have not read this thread in a while due to time constraints so my apologies 
if I've missed something in my response and the late response. And my 
compliments to the group for so much input. As with Michael, I have learned a 
lot and this will save me an enormous amount of time and re-discovery.

Alan S. House

On Wednesday, January 25, 2012 04:41:39 PM Michael Tiernan wrote:
> On 1/25/12 4:19 PM, Michael Tiernan wrote:
> > On 1/24/12 4:26 PM, Connie Sieh wrote:
> >> Why can you not fix it until the "next distribution" comes out?
> 
> Not intending to insult anyone's intelligence, using the "A picture is
> worth a 1K words" approach:
>    http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/27834209/The_Problem.png
> It is a small drawing that might help folks quickly see the point I was
> after.