How to Make Google Calendar work with Kontact

[TheMacster]

Just a quick note.

I've just done a fresh install and went for the ppa as trying to clone into git was hanging up all the time for me.

I'm pleased to say that the AMD build installed nicely.

[woodsmoke]

I've had this fix running for a couple of months now, and I'd say it's perfect really. Shame its so well hidden.

Shame it is so well hidden......I totally agree ....i mean the information that is actually relevant to the whole Akonadi, Kontact, you name it, stuff is buried all over the place and when it is collected into one place the presentation is so turgid as to be next to worthless.

It certainly seems to work for moi.

This thread maybe oughta be made a sticky by somebody.

woodsmoke

[woodsmoke]

Hi
I posted About the TheMacSter's fix at KDE forums.

great job TheMacSter and all

woodsmoke

[pnunn]

Does anyone know if this work for contacts as well? I seem to have calendar working ok through dav but I can't get contacts working through akondai-googledata.

Ta

Peter.

[TheMacster]

Hi
I posted About the TheMacSter's fix at KDE forums.

great job TheMacSter and all

woodsmoke

Nice one. Thanks

[TheMacster]

Does anyone know if this work for contacts as well? I seem to have calendar working ok through dav but I can't get contacts working through akondai-googledata.

Ta

Peter.

Works for me

[pnunn]

Fantastic. Just installed from ppa, and as everyone says, why is this hidden?? Its like the fonts setup by infinality, SO much better than the default.

Great stuff, this is finally becoming a really really usable system.

Thanks guys.

Peter.

[SteveRiley]

Does anyone know if this work for contacts as well? I seem to have calendar working ok through dav but I can't get contacts working through akondai-googledata.

What steps are you taking to try to get it to work?

[pnunn]

Hi Steve,

I just installed the new stuff here and its working fantastically. Previously I'd used akonadi-googledata and it worked OK for contacts (not for calendar, which I had going with dav), but this interface seems to be much more stable.

Peter.

[CogSci]

This is what I to get everything running nicely:

sudo apt-get install cmake kdelibs5-dev kdepimlibs5-dev libqjson-dev libphonon-dev xsltproc
git clone git://anongit.kde.org/akonadi-google
cd akonadi-google
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ../ -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr
make
sudo make install

I got stuck at the second command line:
klaus@Socrates:~$ git clone git://anongit.kde.org/akonadi-google
Cloning into 'akonadi-google'...
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
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Any ideas what to do now?

[pnunn]

No I don't have any idea. I just tried the git clone myself and got the same response. I wonder if github is down for maintenance or something like that.

I'll try again later and see what happens.

Peter.

[SteveRiley]

Akonaidi-Google is being reworked. More info: http://www.progdan.cz/2012/05/libkgoogle-libkgapi/

[sumski]

Former akonadi-google has splitted in libkgapi (library only) and akonadi-google-resources (merged in kdepim-runtime for KDE 4.9).
http://www.progdan.cz/2012/05/libkgoogle-libkgapi/
You need* first to build libkgapi
https://projects.kde.org/news/150
and then what is in now kdepim-runtime, but maintainer for now keeps a copy for older KDEPIM:
http://quickgit.kde.org/index.php?p=....git&a=summary


/*/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=49769
(Comment from progdan)

[The Liquidator]

Must admit I fell out badly with the KDE pim suite when korganiser wiped out my google calendar a year or so ago. 10 years worth of diary events deleted at a stroke. I was fortunate in that I had done a back-up a few days before and I had enabled the Lightning plugin caching function.

Have decided to give it another try:
kmail - fine
Contacts - seem fine after a clean-up of data following export from thunderbird
Google calendar - failed. On login - the error pane says parsing token page failed.
I'm aware of this bug
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=301240

Reading there it says that the bug is solved in libkgapi 0.4.1, which is the one I have installed from the author's repository.

Can anyone suggest a fix please?

[pnunn]

Sumski or SteveRiley, just after some help here. I've compiled and installed libkgapi but I'm not finding any google resources in my kdepim setup. What exactly do I need to do to make this work again with Kontact 4.8.4? (I should have kept a copy of the old code shouldn't I ).

Thanks, and sorry if its a dumb question.

Peter.