Intro and Kontact troubles(Jack Monty)

[Colin J Thomson]

On Wednesday, 2 February 2022 23:49:10 GMT Jack Montgomery wrote:
> Thanks Colin,

Your welcome Jack,

> 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.

I think you maybe being hit with this calendar bug:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=449024

There is a patch and my PIM suite had the patch applied on a recent update and 
it works, I guess that is why I never noticed the issue maybe :)

Regards

Colin

> 
> 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


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