how do I import my gmail contact to evolution

Try with this http://www.ai.rug.nl/~bneijt/prog/Shell/GmailExport/

After some playing around, I found the proper order for at least the first and last name, nickname, and email:
<code>firstname,lastname,nickname,email</code>

Any more than that you will have to continue doing what I did:
Open the csv with OOO Calc and move the columns around. After each import, you can click on the contact to see where the data went, this should tell you the order of the columns according to how evolution sees it.

oops, C&P'ed my last message...remove the "<code>" or the "</code>" part...

After some playing around, I found the proper order for at least the first and last name, nickname, and email:
firstname,lastname,nickname,email

Any more than that you will have to continue doing what I did:
Open the csv with OOO Calc and move the columns around. After each import, you can click on the contact to see where the data went, this should tell you the order of the columns according to how evolution sees it.

Last night I exported my Google contacts in vCard format and imported these contacts without any problems in Evolution.

Hope this helps,
Jan

how did you import the vcard in to evolution?

I selected the vcard and evolution imported it. Have all my contacts from gmail to Evolution now.

The Google vCard export does reasonably well, except for the street addresses. I actually maintain my Gmail contacts with phone numbers and physical as well as email addresses. MOST of the stuff in the vcard (including company name and multiple email addresses) import pretty well, but not the address.

I may be able to come up with a SED script to modify the address format to get it to work.

Here's a pretty brute force way to fix the address lines:

#!/bin/sh

dos2unix | awk '
/^LABEL;TYPE=HOME/ {
 line0 = $0;
 gsub("LABEL;", "ADR;", line0);
 gsub(":", ":;;", line0);
 gsub("=0D=0A=", ";", line0);
 next;
 }
/.*/ {
 if (line0 != "")
  gsub(", ", ";", $0); \
  gsub(" ", ";", $0);
 printf("%s%s\n", line0, $0);
 line0 = "";
 next;
 }'