[Evolution] Shared contact info between Android/Google contacts and Evolution

[Nick Jenkins <nickpj gmail com>]

Hi all,

So I got a cheap Android phone a few weeks ago for $99 outright, and am
liking the automatic syncing of contacts between the phone and the "My
contacts" category of http://google.com/contacts .

Contact syncing nirvana is now within reach, with the web, my phone, and
my desktop Evo client all sharing the same personal contact list, and
contacts being viewable/addable/deletable/editable on all clients, and
automatically synced between all clients.

However there are a few omissions in Evolution's Google contacts
function that prevents this from happening as well as I would like.
Specifically:

* The "address book properties" dialog box in Evolution doesn't seem to
allow specifying which folder/label of contacts to use. Instead it seems
to use "All Contacts". This tends to contain a lot of cruft (since gmail
I think auto-adds contacts to the address book using this label/folder).
In my case "My contacts" is the folder/label I'd like to select.

* Some contact properties are not editable in Evo, but they seem to be
available/supported in Google contacts.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=625330 mentions notes and
birthdays. There's a few more though, namely: Nickname field, the "other
phone" phone number type, web address: home page; web address: web log;
spouse's name; job: title; job: company; and the person's picture/image.

Has anyone noticed anything else? I'm happy to test & log it in
bugzilla. Presumably I can't be the only person on this list with one of
these phones, who'd like to see seamless contact syncing between all
their devices.

-- All the best,
Nick.