[kaddressbook] [Bug 320962] New: Kaddressbook does not allow editing of Categories

[tkrishan at hotmail.com]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320962

            Bug ID: 320962
           Summary: Kaddressbook does not allow editing of Categories
    Classification: Unclassified
           Product: kaddressbook
           Version: 4.10
          Platform: Compiled Sources
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: kdepim-bugs at kde.org
          Reporter: tkrishan at hotmail.com
                CC: tokoe at kde.org

One of the features missing from Kaddressbook is the ability to edit contacts
by adding and editing categories.  While there is a work around for viewing by
category (sort of) by filtering by using the search field and it is good that
Kaddressbook does not clobber pre-existing categories when imported,  the
editing function for categories is missing.

Sorting contacts into various folders is not the equivalent. If a contact is a
member of more than one category, this is stored in the one unique contact
entry.  With folders, adding a contact to a second folder causes the contact is
replicated.  Now multiple contact entries must be updated when revisions are
necessary for the same person represented by the contact.

Android phones use Groups.  One of the best non-Google tools for syncing
contacts is CardDAV-Sync. It will map Categories to Groups on the Android when
syncing and vice-versa. Unfortunately, there is no way to edit categories in
Kaddressbook.  My work around is to currently to use CardDavMATE off of my
DAViCal server as a contact editor.

How can the functionality of Category editing be added back into Kaddressbook? 
For those that use Categories as a way of defining group memberships, it is a
show stopper for using Kaddressbook as an address editor.

Some links that are pertinent to this post:

CardDAV-Sync http://dmfs.org/carddav/
CardDavMATE http://www.inf-it.com/open-source/clients/carddavmate/
DAViCal http://www.davical.org/
Set Theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_theory
Mengenlehre http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mengenlehre


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open Kaddressbook
2. select a contact
3. try editing the categories
Actual Results:  
There is no way to edit categories

Expected Results:  
A category edit function would be provided

This was a feature in the original Kaddressbook (before Akonadi).

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