kmail + gmail = headache

[SteveRiley]

akonadi-kde-resource-googledata is the old broken google resource. You need to add the ppa listed at the project webpage (https://projects.kde.org/projects/pl...di-google/news)

Hey, nice find. Looks promising.

Contacts works well, no problems.

Calendar, on Oneiric anyway, has a few problems. Events didn't show up until I exited and restarted KOrganizer twice. Repeating events on my main calendar show up on days where I've removed the one recurring event -- either Google calendar isn't reporting a one-time deletion properly, or the new resource has a bug here. Secondary calendars don't show any text, only the presence of something but it's blank. I'll dig into this a bit more and file bugs as appropriate.

[blackpaw]

Contacts sync fine when you install the package akonadi-kde-resource-googledata (it might already be on your system). But despite appearances, this does not work for calendars. You need to create a CalDAV resource instead. See this post for more information.

akonadi-kde-resource-googledata is the old broken google resource. You need to add the ppa listed at the project webpage (https://projects.kde.org/projects/pl...di-google/news)

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:benoitg/akonadigoogle-daily
sudo apt-get install akonadi-google

[blackpaw]

Interesting - a few weeks back on the pim-dev list when I asked about the google resources I was told the old google akonadi resource was maintained and broken, good to see theres a new one, will check it out.

I tried the CalDav approach but the sync'ing seemed some what unreliable to me.

[woodsmoke]

thankee thankee
woodsmoke

[SteveRiley]

Sure. The procedure is mostly the same as what Kubicle and I described before, although there's one important change to the calendar's URL. I just tested it now and it's working for secondary calendars. Want to hop onto #kubuntu? I'm there now.

Original instructions:

Your Google Calendar ID for your primary calendar is just your email address, but for all other calendars the Calendar ID will be in the form of long_string_of_characters@group.calendar.google.com.

Modification:

Your Google Calendar ID for your primary calendar is just your email address, but for all other calendars the Calendar ID will be in the form of long_string_of_characters@import.calendar.google.com.

[woodsmoke]

Hi SR,
If you happen to have the time some day, hows about we get onto IRC or somthun and spend and you give me a walk through about CALDAV and we jointly post a how to, or, if it would be more convenient, maybe you could do one or point me/us to a relatively simple walk through.

I'm wondering if the whole Koallab thing might be given a looksee also in case we get a company dropping by that wants to implement it.

woodsmoke

[SteveRiley]

Secondary calendars still work if I use the CalDAV method. Configuring those is, as we've seen, less than intuitive, however.

[woodsmoke]

Hi SR
Yes there is a "thing" about secondary calendars. One of my first "how tos" mentioned the talk around the net that there was a "bug" between gcalendar and Kontact in that one could not even get AT the primary calendar, I think you were the one who indicated how to get around that.
The bug thing about the primary calendar has been fixed, however, there is discussion back and forth by some people that can get at their secondary calendars and some who cannot.
I have not made a secondary calendar and so cannot address the situation.
woodsmoke

[SteveRiley]

Hey, you're right, it's now working. Very cool!

Alas, it appears to work only with the default calendar. Secondary calendars don't show up.

[woodsmoke]

I do not have caldav resource installed and the calendars sync for me.

woodsmoke

[SteveRiley]

Contacts sync fine when you install the package akonadi-kde-resource-googledata (it might already be on your system). But despite appearances, this does not work for calendars. You need to create a CalDAV resource instead. See this post for more information.

[woodsmoke]

Fintan,
In a word, yes, although I have not tried to get "tasks" to work if you are you are discussing "to-dos" and the main reason for that is that I don't "do" to-dos much. However, I did go a-huntin' for that kind of thing in Google "more" stuff, so I'll try to do that, but if you do them a lot it might be more efficient for you to give it a whack since it will probably take me a while to get up to speed on it.

I have also verified this on two other distros other than Kubuntu.

woodsmoke

[Fintan]

My experience with KMail2 in KDE 4.8 with GMail has been uniformly positive. So much so that I am finally able to ditch Thunderbird.

How are contacts and calendar synching with gmail contacts and calendar / tasks?

Has akonadi google resources been fixed?

[SteveRiley]

How are you setting up your Gmail account?

I'd recommend avoiding the wizard. Instead, configure it manually. My experience with KMail2 in KDE 4.8 with GMail has been uniformly positive. So much so that I am finally able to ditch Thunderbird.

[woodsmoke]

However, as I posted elsewhere, as of the update yesterday Kontact is now fully functional using akonadi for gmail, that is the mail, contacts, and calendar. RSS works, as does the journal, however, that being said, the Ktimetracker still crashes when attempting to set a date.

But, for the big stuff Kontact is now fully functional.

woodsmoke