Anyone have KDE Online Accounts working with Google?

[0xthrmk]

By installing kaccounts-* and related packages you should be able to connect KDE to your Google account. Then using the kio-gdrive package, you should be able to mount your Google drive easily in Dolphin. I've done this previously using Manjaro KDE, and it was straight forward to set up and was working as recently as earlier this year.

For MX it doesn't work. I get to this initial screen shown below, and no matter what I do, nothing happens after I click the Next button.

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Based on my research others have my same problem, and other problems. KDE Online Accounts seems to work for Arch based systems, but is broken in others. It also seems that the bug was identified and fixed like a year or more ago but the fixed package had not yet made it's way to stable releases. That goes above my head.

Does anyone have this working? A work around is to install gnome-online-accounts which does the same thing. But I am not sure if I will encounter the same problem. Has anyone done that?

My only goal is to be able to access google drive as if it was a local drive in Dolphin, just the way kio-gdrive does this so easily functions. I've tried some other programs which claim to do the same but they were either an ordeal to configure via CLI, or they didn't work, or they worked but were so slow as to be unusable.

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System:    Host: <filter> Kernel: 5.8.0-3-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.8.0-3-amd64 root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash 
           Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.14.5 wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM Distro: MX-19.4_KDE_x64 patito feo November 11 2020 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 

[asqwerth]

viewtopic.php?f=145&t=65718

see the link to kde forums I posted in post 6 of that thread. https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=309&t=163200

I don't think there is a fix for the version of Plasma in MX19/Debian Buster, which is ver 5.14.

Fixes were made in later versions of Plasma, but due to the older Qt version Debian Buster uses for all Qt apps (not just plasma stuff), we can't backport newer versions of Plasma into Buster/MX19 and are stuck on 5.14.

Arch is rolling so they will always be on the latest Plasma version.

The coming Debian Bullseye/MX21 will be on Plasma 5.20, which isn't the latest Plasma version. But hopefully 5.20 has the fix.

Workrounds in MX19: please do a forum search. I seem to recall at least one thread discussing alternative ways to connect to one's google drive.

[MAYBL8]

I tried this with my experimental load of plasma 5.22 and loaded all the packages needed.
The Google Drive shows up in Dolphin but just spins on trying to load the contents of the drive.
So a little further but still doesn't work.

[asqwerth]

I tried this with my experimental load of plasma 5.22 and loaded all the packages needed.
The Google Drive shows up in Dolphin but just spins on trying to load the contents of the drive.
So a little further but still doesn't work.

Not sure, but didn't your experimental system still include MX (buster) repos? As in it was not a pure Sid install?

Perhaps OP can wait for the mx21 KDE beta to be released and test the function there. Then feedback can be given and if there are issues (eg needs systemd to work) the Devs can look at the problem.

[0xthrmk]

viewtopic.php?f=145&t=65718

Workrounds in MX19: please do a forum search. I seem to recall at least one thread discussing alternative ways to connect to one's google drive.

Side note: It's frustrating that I searched the forum useing multiple combinations of keywords related to the problem and yet the post you linked from just a few days was not returned. Looking a little closer:

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Searched query: google drive kde
ignored: drive kde

I know why as it's been a annoyance on BB forums forever, but it's hard to find anything when 2/3 of your search terms are ignored.

Anyway, I may try the gnome-online-accounts route, but not sure if this is currently working.

[JayM]

I know why as it's been a annoyance on BB forums forever, but it's hard to find anything when 2/3 of your search terms are ignored.

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[asqwerth]

viewtopic.php?f=145&t=65718

Workrounds in MX19: please do a forum search. I seem to recall at least one thread discussing alternative ways to connect to one's google drive.

Side note: It's frustrating that I searched the forum useing multiple combinations of keywords related to the problem and yet the post you linked from just a few days was not returned. Looking a little closer:

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Searched query: google drive kde
ignored: drive kde

I know why as it's been a annoyance on BB forums forever, but it's hard to find anything when 2/3 of your search terms are ignored.

Anyway, I may try the gnome-online-accounts route, but not sure if this is currently working.

This is a very useful thread, and this post in particular, on how to search the forum
viewtopic.php?p=635053#p635053

[0xthrmk]

thanks