Categories cannot be translated

Thank you for your bug report, that seems similar to bug #442250

As requested by upstream, I've opened a new bug on https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=601535

the bug has been fixed upstream now

This bug was fixed in the package evolution-data-server - 2.30.2-0ubuntu1

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evolution-data-server (2.30.2-0ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low

  * New upstream release:
    - Mail inline parser doesn't always work (Milan Crha) (LP: #219104)
    - Corruption of mailbox and can't expunge trash (Milan Crha)
      (LP: #286497, #325157)
    - WebDAV addressbook is too strict about content-type (Petr Tomasek)
    - Handle server's resource rename on WebDAV PUT response (Milan Crha)
    - Use NSS SQLite database, if available (Craig Ringer)
    - Fix NULL return without exception on krb5-auth-dialog
      failure (David Woodhouse)
    - Categories not translated in menus (Matthew Barnes) (LP: #443215)
    - Fix translation domain for default categories (Gert Michael Kulyk)
    - Mishandling of '@' in WebDAV contacts username (Milan Crha)
      (LP: #497146)
    - Use CRLF in signed & encrypted S/MIME messages
    - Remove superfluous space in flags in APPEND command (David Woodhouse)
    - Crash in gnome_keyring_item_info_free from e-passwords.c (Milan Crha)
    - Fix GSSAPI (and other SASL) authentication for imapx (David Woodhouse)
    - Teach camel_sexp_to_sql_sexp about no-arg (match-all)
      (Matt McCutchen 2)
    - Contacts are not displayed in GW Addressbook (Bharath Acharya)
    - Don't use an unitialized key in folder_changed_remove_uid
      (Claudio Saavedra)
    - Evolution didn't quit due to deadlock (Milan Crha)
    - Crash of e-addressbook-factory on second start of evolution (Milan Crha)
    - Fix translation of birthday and anniversary events (Gert Michael Kulyk)
    - Return formatted address in e_destination_get_address (David Ayers)
      (LP: #229187)
    - Add imap-over-custom-command support for imapx (David Woodhouse)
    - Fix fetch of large mails from broken servers like Exchange
      (David Woodhouse)
    - Fix double command ->complete() in imapx_command_start_next()
      (David Woodhouse)
    - Fix double-free of is->literal in cancel_all_jobs() (David Woodhouse)
    - use 'UID FETCH' instead of 'FETCH' for scan_changes (David Woodhouse)
    - Remove GroupWise debugging messages. (Matthew Barnes)
    - Bump libedataserver soname twice. (Matthew Barnes)
    - Check EBook DBus error names without underscores too (Milan Crha)
    - Create a section in the name selector dialog in its own function
      (Federico Mena Quintero)
    - Create the configdir instead of bailing out if it does not exist
      (Fridrich Štrba)
    - Don't set a default vertical size for the name selector window
      (Federico Mena Quintero)
    - Fix locking issues in cancel_all_jobs() (David Woodhouse)
    - Fix pointlessly narrow default width in the name selection dialog
    - Name the pointless label at the top, so it can be disabled for MeeGo
      (Michael Meeks)
    - Fix tagprefix for multiple accounts. (David Woodhouse)
    - Fix typo in patch for bug on WebDAV (Milan Crha)
    - Put the name selector's section labels in the same row as the
      treeviews (Federico Mena Quintero)
    - Redo the container hierarchy in the name selector dialog
      (Federico Mena Quintero)
    - Remove an unused label in the name selector ...