GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 752967
Use contacts categories as subitems of addressbooks in the sidebar treeview
Last modified: 2021-05-19 11:45:23 UTC
Instead of the fairly inefficient combobox (in the searchbar) for listing and selecting categories, listing them as "subfolders" of an addressbook (that you can fold/unfold, just like the mail folders list) would surely be a much more efficient system. In fact, one reason why I wanted to create a bazillion addressbooks instead of using categories was to use that big empty space in the sidebar and to see my various books/categories at a glance, alpha-sorted. Implementing this, with drag & drop moving of contacts across categories in that treeview (just like you can move contacts between addressbooks) would probably solve bug #548610, bug #265982, bug #217097, bug #514041, etc. Ideally, to combat weird systems like GMail/Google and their automated categories, one should be able to "hide" some categories just like one "unsubscribes" from an IMAP folder.
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