Bug 240680

Summary: addressbook supports categories from prior level, but cannot enter on new contacts.
Product: [Unmaintained] kmail Reporter: Aere <Aere>
Component: addressbookAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: contact, j_kolberg11, luke-jr+kdebugs
Priority: NOR    
Version: 1.13.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Unlisted Binaries   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In: kdepim 4.6
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Aere 2010-06-04 05:19:55 UTC 
Version:           1.13.2 (using KDE 4.4.3) 
OS:                Linux

Although KMail's address book supports address book categories (imported from the 9.10 version of Kubuntu/KMail, and they can be used in selecting e-mail addresses displayed (with which a select-all can be done), it does not allow you to enter a category for a contact being newly created.  

This lack of backward compatibility invalidates my newsletter address-list scheme used for years.  

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Enter a new contact.  

Try to find somewhere in the dialog box to enter a category.

Actual Results:  
No way found to enter a category.  

Expected Results:  
Should be some way to select (and enter a new) category, such as family, newsletter-recipients, etc.  

OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.32-22-generic
Compiler: cc
Comment 1 David Todd 2010-07-09 09:48:54 UTC 
I agree 100%! I have several filters that no longer work because the 'category' field has disappeared!  Being able to filter on categories was really useful, both for receiving and sending email.
Comment 2 Luke-Jr 2010-11-15 23:02:51 UTC 
Major regression. :(
Comment 3 Jonathan Kolberg 2011-05-05 12:17:05 UTC 
In KDEPIM 4.6 beta5 this is possible, so it will be fixed with 4.6
Comment 4 Christophe Marin 2011-05-07 19:20:19 UTC 
Yes, typing the first category letters in the recipients picker filters the addresses automatically.

Fixed in kdepim 4.6