[1.0.3.8] Qt5Contacts backend broken - Sync contacts not possible in Mitäkuuluu

Disappointing and weird... I suppose there is a reason for this change though, and it would be helpful to know it because as it is now it just seems to lock down some parts of the phone to 3rd party apps (a great incentive to enhance the ecosystem).

The (temporary) lockdown of the bootloader was another very unpopular change, but once the reasons where explained (and the reassurance a further fix was on the way) the situation got cleared quite a bit.

Is this really true ?!? Jolla personnel, please deny or confirm !

There's a reason here: https://www.mail-archive.com/devel@lists.sailfishos.org/msg03013.html (so they're still working on a lawyer-compliant way to allow apps to access contacts)

If you add your application to privileged-group you can still read contacts just fine, so applications that are in for exampe OpenRepos can read contacts. Unfortunately currently privileged group bit is not allowed in Harbour, so for Harbour applications you need to wait for proper API to appear.

i tried this giving mitakuuluu all privileges available in the privileged file. I tried changing the group for the privileged directory. i tried starting mitakuuluu with root, however, you get to the point where you read the contacts but cannot import them to mitakuuluu. i even changed the rights on the contact database directory to no result

@dan.socea You are not supposed to run it as a root, as it will not have access, you are supposed to run it as uid nemo and group privileged, with that it will have access, you can do that by either adding binary to privileged list and by starting application with invoker, or by adding setgid privileged bit to binary in .spec file and starting application without booster by aditing special flag to .desktop file (by default invoker will drop setgid if its not in privileged list file). Or by running "devel-su -p" which will give you nemo.privileged shell.

@rainisto so i will tell you what i did step by step and please tell me where i'm going wrong: 1st try: devel-su --privileged -> this opened a privileged console. i started mitakuuluu from it. no go. it read the contacts but was unable to generate a database 2nd try: added harbour-mitakuuluu and harbour-mitakuuluu-server to privileged list. started mitakuuluu from launcher. same as above. started it from a privileged console. same as above

we'll just forget the tries with root for now :P

Well my guess would be that starting it with root has created some files as root that nemo can't read/create or that your directory permissions are not the default ones (maybe time for factory reset or copy permissions from stock device). I cannot debug remotely as I don't know the state of your filesystem and don't have exact data how you start the server and client parts.