Intro and Kontact troubles(Jack Monty)

[Jack Montgomery]

Thanks Colin,

Yeah, I tried a couple of different methods. The CalDav method with an
App Password worked for one calendar; contacts and tasks were not
possible without using OAuth2.0.

The solution where I got everything working again was to switch to
Evolution and use that instead. Not ideal since I run Plasma but a good
interim, everything works out of the box, until the Google API bug is
fixed.

Again thanks for your help. I am looking forward to a fix!

--
Jack

On Sat, 2022-01-29 at 17:31 +0000, Colin J Thomson wrote:
> On Saturday, 29 January 2022 13:46:42 GMT Colin Ward wrote:
> > First of all, Welcome, Jack to the kdepim-users
> > community!
> 
> Yes welcome Jack
> 
> > As to your issue with Kontact and Google Calendar
> > and contacts, I am having the issue as well with
> > contacts but due to some digging I have done on my
> > own into the issue, and without going into a detailed
> > explanation, the contacts portion of Kontact will no
> > longer sync with Google contacts. This is because of
> > a change made by Google. If Kontact is
> > reprogrammed to line up with this change, then
> > Google contacts should again be able to sync with
> > Kontact, but I am not aware of any plans for that
> > reprogramming to happen but I am not "in the
> > know" about such things.
> 
> Here is the bug report on the google contacts issue, changes need to
> be made 
> in libkgapi, a big job and only 1 (I think) person working on it.
>  
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=439285
> 
> > as for syncing your calendar, I suspect you have to
> > set up what is known as an app password. This is a
> > "special" password that allows google to "trust" what
> > are called "untrusted" apps. These are apps that
> > google has decided do not meet its securi ty protools
> > and so they are blocked from connecting to Google's
> > servers. If you search for "setting up an app
> > password google Kontact" or something similar,
> > there are many good tutorials.
> 
> I can't comment on the calendar issue as mine is OK, but I think
> Colin is 
> right that you need to set something in your Google account...
> 
> Regards
> 
> Colin