Allow easily renaming and deleting addressbook contacts categories
Evolution 3.50.2 exposes addressbook contact categories as unfolding sub-sections of any addressbook:
This is nice, and more practical & discoverable than the filtering combobox. That said, I feel like it could be improved further by finally allowing, with a right-click on any of those categories in the sidebar, to rename or delete the category.
Right now, Evolution offers no practical UI for this. The "Available Categories" dialog is only present in the "Edit" menu and is hard to discover, and it doesn't let you rename categories. This means that if you would like to change a category name, you have go through each and every contact's editing dialog individually, change the categories string, save, and repeat the process for hundreds of contacts per category. Instead, it would be nice if Evolution could offer a way to change a category directly by right-clicking it, including renaming or deleting it (which would unassign/reassign the relevant contacts automatically behind the scenes).
P.s.: in the right-click menu currently, when right-clicking a category in the sidebar, you get:
- "Manage Groups…" : not the thing you're looking for
- "Properties…" : not the category's property, it is the properties dialog for the addressbook, so that's misleading
- "Save as vCard…" : this saves the whole addressbook as a vCard, not just that category within the addressbook, so it is a bit misleading for it to be there too
I think the last two items in the list above should probably not be shown when right-clicking a category, or at least in that case it should be labelled to mention the word "Addressbook"... unless they get remapped to affecting only the category.