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).