the offending string is in e_name_selector_dialog_populate_categories() in libedataserverui/e-name-selector-dialog.c.

category_list = g_list_prepend (category_list, "Any Category");
must be marked for translation *and* it **must** be the first item in the dropdown list. currently the dropdown categories list is sorted alphabetically, so every user that has a category sorted before "Any Category" (imagine something like "Aaa") always has to change the category to "Any Category" manually to get all the contacts displayed, which is highly annoying.

srini, can this be done for 2.8?

Created attachment 75784 [details] [review]
Proposed patch

e_categories_get_list() already sorts the list (properly now, with this patch), so no need to sort it again in e_name_selector_dialog_populate_categories().  Also marked "Any Category" for translation.

Downstream bug report about the sorting issue:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=215107

Can we get the patch reviewed in time for 2.8.2?

Please commit Mathew. 

Committed to HEAD and gnome-2-16 branch.

This bug can be closed now.  I lack the permissions to do it myself.

Thx Matthew.

matthew, i've just given you bugzilla permissions, so now you can close bugs yourself. :-)

Thanks Andre!

Gentlemen,

If this bug has been fixed, then why do I, in Fedora Test3  Have the problem.

Test3 is version 2.10.0

Leslie Satenstein

Leslie, because it is a different bug, as already written and discussed in bug 424725?