Nixpkgs: KDE / KOrganizer Dependencies Missing

[Meizikyn]

Issue description

Kontact / KOrganizer / KDE-PIM, when installed, crashes upon use:
i.e. In KOrganizer, adding an event/task/journal, causes a crash. (see Technical details)

KOrganizer only works after installing everything from nixos.kdeApplications and nixos.kdeFrameworks
nix-env -iA nixos.kdeApplications nixos.kdeFrameworks

I attempted to compare Debian's dependency graph for KOrganizer and install the equivalently named packages in NixOS, to no avail.

Steps to reproduce

nano /etc/nixos/configuration.nix
Add korganizer to systemPackages, use Plasma5 as Desktop-Manager & SDDM as Display-Manager

nixos-rebuild switch
korganizer

Add new event, type Title, hit OK, crashes with output below

There is not a proper DrKonqi / KCrash report to associate with this, as neither system are considered dependencies of any other package, as far as I can tell, and must be installed manually.

Technical details

TTY Output:

org.kde.pim.kidentitymanagement: IdentityManager: There was no default identity. Marking first one as default.
kf5.kservice.services: KServiceTypeTrader: serviceType "KOrganizer/Part" not found
org.kde.pim.kidentitymanagement: IdentityManager: There was no default identity. Marking first one as default.
org.kde.pim.incidenceeditor: free slot calculation: invalid range. range(  0 ) / mSlotResolutionSeconds( 900 ) =  0
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'Akonadi::PayloadException'
  what():  Akonadi::PayloadException: Wrong payload type (requested: sp(0)<QByteArray>; present: sp(2)<KCalCore::Incidence*>
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Protocol exception: Socket disconnected

nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m" Results:

• system: "x86_64-linux"
• host os: Linux 4.14.32, NixOS, 18.03.131802.4b4bbce199d (Impala)
• multi-user?: yes
• sandbox: no
• version: nix-env (Nix) 2.0
• channels(shor): ""
• channels(root): "nixos-18.03"
• nixpkgs: /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos/nixpkgs

[Mic92]

After a long debugging session I found out that kdeApplications.akonadi-mime was missing.
In my case it was not only required to install it into my own profile (~/.nix-profile) but also in environment.systemPackages since it looked into /run/current-system/sw/share/mime/types before it checks the other directory.

[johnalotoski]

I confirm that following Mic92's suggestion to install kdeApplication.akonadi-mime in the environment.systemPackages fixes the Korganizer crashing issue when making calendar entries on my system too (18.03). Doing so adds the following entries to /run/current-system/sw/share/mime/types:

application/x-vnd.akonadi.calendar.event
application/x-vnd.akonadi.calendar.freebusy
application/x-vnd.akonadi.calendar.journal
application/x-vnd.akonadi.calendar.todo
application/x-vnd.akonadi.collection.virtual
application/x-vnd.kde.contactgroup

Thanks for taking the time to figure out a solution Mic92!

John

[Meizikyn]

Still receiving this error message after above suggestion:

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'Akonadi::PayloadException'
  what():  Akonadi::PayloadException: Wrong payload type (requested: sp(0)<QByteArray>; present: sp(2)<KCalCore::Incidence*>

[pjones]

@ttuegel @vandenoever There doesn't seem to be any documentation on how to properly install KDE applications. Would it make sense to have meta-packages like kontact that installed all necessary dependencies?

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