[Evolution-users] Categories, Groups or Labels in Contacts

[Milan Crha]

On Tue, 2025-11-04 at 15:14 +0100, rsbrux via evolution-users wrote:
> This is possible with a more complete and up-to-
> date implementation of CardDAV support, as found in CardBook.

	Hi,
do you have any specific pointer of what could be missing in the
CardDAV support, please? The last time I tried, Google does not
populate CATEGORY property of the vCard it passes over its CardDAV
interface (in contrast to any other CardDAV servers, those real CardDAV
servers), thus I guess the CardBook does not use CardDAV, or not only
that, with the Google servers.

> are there plans to provide it in Evolution itself?

When the evolution-data-server used libgdata instead of the CardDAV, it
was able to sync the Google groups into the contact categories, but
since the libgdata's contacts support effectively died with deprecation
of the Contacts API on the Google side, the evolution-data-server moved
to the CardDAV, with its downsides. There is filled [1], to use the
People API of the Google servers, but it requires someone to actually
write the interface between the REST data and the vCard data.

If there is any easier way, then I'm all for it.

	Thanks and bye,
	Milan

[1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution-data-server/-/issues/516