Expose the ability to export addressbooks to CSV format from the GUI
Sometimes you need to export your addressbook to CSV format to be able to work with it in a spreadsheet.
Evolution lets you export contacts and addressbooks to vCard format… but I discovered through this Q&A website that the commandline utility behind this actually supports exporting to CSV too. So why not present that action in the GUI when right-clicking an addressbook in the sidebar? The current popup menu only has 5 items, one of which is "Save as vCard…", so I don't think a 6th item next to it, "Save as .CSV…" would be overwhelming.
It would expose the presence of that great feature to non-technical users, and even for geeky users, it would be much easier than using /usr/libexec/evolution-data-server/addressbook-export -l
, then looking at the list of addressbooks that have three variables per line, guessing which variable Evolution would expect as a parameter, and then end up with a command line like
/usr/libexec/evolution-data-server/addressbook-export "b0e4e7ee32aa6ee4a578f8f21dff27fe" \
--format=csv \
--output=/home/foo/blahblah_business_addressbook.csv