GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 794151
The "File Under" field can not be edited
Last modified: 2018-03-12 12:43:41 UTC
I noticed that the "File Under" field in the "Contact Editor" dialog (for both new and existing contacts) can no longer be edited. I usually want to see the name I know someone as in the "File As" column rather than their full legal name, so this is a functionality regression for me. I have a lot of contacts where the "File Under" field in the dialog does not match the options provided in the drop-down and I would like to keep it that way and would like to keep doing that for newly added contacts. I am using evolution 3.26.5-1, evolution-data-server 3.26.5-1 and GNOME 3.26 on Debian buster.
Thanks for the bug report. Do you recall what was your last version, where it worked as expected, please? I do not think it was disabled on purpose, but I can be wrong.
Created attachment 369470 [details] [review] evp patch for evolution; You can locate the .ui file in your system (somewhere around /usr/share/evolution/ui/ I guess), and make the same changes there, then it'll let you edit the File Under as before. I think this happened when I resaved the .ui files with gtk+ 3.10, only nobody noticed it yet.
I do not recall when this last worked as I don't often need to set this. Looking at a vcard export of my contacts data, the REV last date where I added a new contact with an X-EVOLUTION-FILE-AS different to the N/FN fields was 2016-12-27, which would have been evolution 3.22.3-1 according to the Debian tracker, since that migrated to Debian testing on 2016-12-23 and I usually upgrade daily. I did create new contacts since then but the N/FN fields didn't differ to X-EVOLUTION-FILE-AS so I'm not sure if it worked then or not. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/evolution I confirm that the proposed patch fixes the issue and does not appear to cause any other issues, please apply it to all supported releases. PS: is there really still no official field for this in the VCARD RFC? It might be interesting for evolution maintainers to propose this field, I always found this feature of evolution quite excellent and it would be great if more contacts software supported the concept.
The vCard version 3.0 doesn't have it. It's the version Evolution uses. The vCard version 4.0 (bug #722046) has few new attributes, some are pretty interesting. I do not see any related to File-As. I tried with Google interface, which also has File As, but they do not provide it in their CardDAV interface, thus I cannot see what they might use in vCard for it.
Created commit 5b87895091 in evo master (3.29.1+) Created commit 454beee580 in evo gnome-3-28 (3.28.1+)