[kdepim-users] integration with gmail

[E. Hakan Duran]

Thanks Dan for your informative answers. I will work on the Contact issue 
below and if it still happens send the list a more detailed report on it. It 
is great to get answers like this. Thank you for your time!

Hakan

On Thursday, January 02, 2014 03:24:57 PM Daniel Vrátil wrote:
> On Sunday 29 of December 2013 15:43:02 E. Hakan Duran wrote:
> > Hi all,
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > Lately, I have been having issues with my gmail accounts on several
> > points:
> > 
> > 1. Sometimes, when Kontact launches, it complaints about a Google Calendar
> > source being forbidden.
> 
> This was probably caused by us reaching the quota for allowed number of
> requests. The quota has been increased since then, so you should not see
> this again.
> 
> > Everything seems to work just fine though. The only
> > minor nuiscance I noticed is when a new appointment is added to the Google
> > Calendar, it looks like a duplicate of that appointment is also added. If
> > the duplicate is erased, the whole appointment is gone. If you exit the
> > Calendar page in Kontact and come back, you would see that there is only
> > one appointment in that spot, as if the duplicate has never been there.
> 
> This should be fixed in 4.12, which should be hitting Fedora repos any time
> now.
> 
> > 2. Adding contacts to Google Contact resource through Kontact has always
> > been tricky in my experience. Multiple notifications appear on KDE
> > notification area, complaining about the inability to create/add the
> > contact. However, if you browse Gmail contacts from a browser, you will
> > confirm that the contact was added.
> 
> I don not get any such warning. Could you be please more specific about the
> content of the notifications?
> 
> > Today I noticed for the first time that
> > when a picture is added to a particular contact via web browser, it didn't
> > show up in the Kontact vCard.
> 
> It can take a few minutes before Google "publishes" the image. So when you
> update the address book folder in KAddressbook right after you change it on
> Google, it will fail, because Google will return that the contact has been
> changed, but the URL with the image will still not work. When I tried a few
> minutes later, the new picture was synced correctly.
> 
> > 3. When I reply or forward emails from my gmail account, I always receive
> > a
> > warning from the notification area about some task was not accomplished
> > due
> > to inappropriate request, in addition to the confirmatory notification
> > about the email to be sent. I speculate that this notification is probably
> > indicating that some attribute of the email cannot be changed on the imap
> > server, since I cannot see a change in the small email envelop icon on the
> > email list window changing to one with an arrow, indicating either replied
> > or forwarded status.
> 
> This should be fixed in KDE 4.12/Akonadi 1.11.
> 
> Regards,
> Dan
> 
> > I have not change my local .kde folder for several years now. Therefore,
> > some of these behaviors may be products of accumulation of conflicting
> > kontact settings during these years. Any ideas will be much appreciated.
> > 
> > I am currently on Fedora 20, KDE 4.11.4.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Hakan
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