GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 273799
missing category filter in the "choose contact dialog"
Last modified: 2013-09-10 13:57:20 UTC
I miss the category filter in 2.2 ( known since 2.1.5) shown in the "choose contact dialog" ,which is shown when you edit a new message and click on "To:" a small jpg to exactly explain what iam missing: http://www.sven-tek.de.vu/evo_category_missing.jpg regards, Sven
adding me to CC
where in the sourcecode can i find this dialog? could anyone give me a hint?
in order to destroy the UI component (as discussed with jpr and dobey), changing component to contacts.
This really is a killer problem for me. On one of my computers I maintain a bunch of mailing lists with a few hundred contacts, each subscriber can choose to receive multiple newsletters. This is only doable in a sane fashion with categories, so the removal of this feature makes sending the newsletters a lot more complicated. Was this a design decision, or is this just a bug? Anyway it would be great to get that button back, without it categories loose a lot of their usefullness
I found out that "Contact Lists" try to do the job, they appear in the "choose contacts from adressbook" dialog. One can use the contacts dialog and drag and drop to create lists he needs, the bad thing with lists is that this lists are not very flexible. - Not flexible, because it does not have the feature of adding category's to the list, only contacts are allowed. Example, i have a group called "fellows" - as i need a kind of mailing-list - i create a list. I choose the filter fellows and drag/drop all to the list. Ok, for now. But when the i add the category to one of my contacts, or remove one - my list is inconsistent and needs my attention and time to fix this. The situation with having a category filter inside the "coose contact dialog" was much better. Just try to send a mail to a list you defined, and try to take out just one person you dont want to receive it for that moment. "take out" is another feature Contact Lists do not support.
"Contact Lists" is totally unmaintainable if you have people in multiple lists, it would be better if you could create contact lists which are updated automatically according to categories. But atm this stuff isn't there, so until there is a better solution, we really need the "choose contact dialog" back. Or at least any feedback why this was removed, and what the future plan on maintaining mailing lists is.
Needs transition of the category selector from evolution to the e-d-s module.
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*** Bug 303845 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 51022 [details] feature request If you ever used amarok you perhaps liked the smart playlist feature. For example, you define parameters like artist or album for playlists items. Instead of putting all the items in a playlist this generates the playlists on demand. This feature can be used for contact lists directly, perhaps someone is keen enough to implement the "advanced search" that evolution allready has into contact lists. I'd like to do it but there is not enough free time.
I guess, we should bring back the categories. Im not sure, why this is removed. Might be becoz search is there. But still searching in categories is useful. One can see the 2.0.x code and pick the categories and fwd port it to here. Shouldnt be big i guess. Moving it to future enhancement.
this isn't an enhancement, but a regression towards 2.0, and quite a few people complain about it. it's also targetted in the wiki to put this back into 2.6. setting severity at least to "minor".
I disagree with the statement of Andre as the feature is a necessity for everybody writing mail to various people in different categories. Evolution is not always progress and regression (regreding on erroneously taken decisions) is improvement. In my opinion, working for > 2 years with Evolution, this bug's severity is MAJOR.
Fix committed to cvs head.
Glad to see it will be fix'ed. Please do not spoil a great product by making "enhancements" this way. It makes me think back to when my cable-ISP suddently decided to adjust my speed from 512k/256k to 1024k/128k, instead of lowering prices, and then calling it an improvement even though i needed the 256k up. THEN later they up'ed the speed to 256k up once again and dared to call that an "enhancement". The missing category actually makes me st[iu]ck with Evo 1.4. ...waiting for Godot..