On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 6:04 AM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Monday 18 Aug 2014 09:20:17 Peter Humphrey wrote: >> On Sunday 17 August 2014 23:09:24 Alan McKinnon wrote: >> > Take kparts and kioslaves. KDE treats as much as possible as some sort >> > of plugin that all KDE apps can share. This gives the user a fantastic >> > degree of abstraction because anything that represents data can be a >> > kpart. NFS mounts, smb shares, ssh, some weird random new thing - all of >> > them show up in the file manager. Drag and drop works because of this. >> >> ...and I've just noticed these two: >> >> [N] kde-misc/akonadi-google (~20131213(4)): Google services integration in >> Akonadi [N] kde-misc/krunner-googletranslate (~0.1(4)): Krunner plug-in >> for Google translate service >> >> They could turn out to be a magic wand, or conversely give you the >> colly-wobbles. Has anyone here tried either of them? > > A user asked for their Google Calendar to be synchronised with > Korganizer/Kontact and ISTR I enabled USE="google" in kde-base/kdepim-runtime, > which I think pulled in kde-misc/akonadi-google. > > A few months ago Google were using DAV for this purpose, but they decided to > change their API. As a result older =< 4.4.11.1-r2 KDEPIM versions broke and > one had to move to the current versions of KDEPIM in order to use Google > Calendar integration.
My problem with KDE and Google is that it seems like it doesn't work with application-specific passwords - or at least it didn't use to work with them. As a result I have to use two-factor login every time I log into KDE, which is painful enough that I usually just close the window and have stale data as a result. Perhaps this has been fixed. Rich
