Categories to event context menu and contact context menu

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I have switched from Outlook to Evolution recently and I am super happy.

There is just one thing I am missing that I was using a lot in Outlook. I would like to be able to rightclick on an event in the calender, or a contact in the addressbook, and then choose to which category I want to add that item (or choose which category to apply to that item). I have looked at View > Layout > Customize… and then ‘event context menu’ and ‘contact context menu’ but although there are a lot of options there, unfortunatly adding category to the context menu is not one of them.

So I hope you wonderfull developers will pick up this message and add it. Thanks in advance, or if it is not picked up, thanks anyway, because I am realy happy with this open source solution.

2

In View > Layout > Customize… category is available, but it just comes up with a list of categories, an no option to apply a category to an even.

3

Hi,
thank you for the suggestion. It sounds similar to the mail Labels,
which can be found in the menus, thus it could be doable in a similar
way.

Would you mind to fill a feature request in the

and paste here a link to it, please? That way it won’t be forgotten. I
cannot promise any quick look on, but having it there other people can
look it on too and propose patches. Let me know if you cannot file the
bug, I will file it for you.

Thanks and bye,
Milan
4

I guess it’s the “Available Categories” action. It is truly only for
the management of them, to add/remove/edit the list of the categories.
It corresponds to the Edit->Available Categories menu option.

5

Hi Milan, I tried filling in a feature request using the link you provided, but I can’t figure out how to log in there. So if you could file it for me, that would be wonderfull.

Thanks so much!!

6

You are absolutly right. View > Layout > Customize… and ‘available categories’ is just a way to get to category management.

Milan is going to fill in a feature request for me. Hopefully the development team will pick it up.

7

I tried filling in a feature request using the link you provided, but
I can’t figure out how to log in there.

Hmm, no idea what they changed, but I did not see a login screen there
for a long time, thus hard to tell, I’m sorry. I know there had been
some limitations due to spammers or such.

So if you could file it for me, that would be wonderfull.

Sure thing, I filled it here:

No promises when it’ll be done, it may take months or even more. It
depends.