Breakout: UI and user vision for cloud services

[Elvis Angelaccio]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 5:00 AM, Martin Klapetek
<martin.klapetek at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 4:54 AM, Elvis Angelaccio <elvis.angelaccio at kde.org>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi Martin,
>> I'm planning to integrate KAccounts with kio-gdrive, so your email is
>> very much appreciated.
>> What exactly is "Kaccounts" in the first place? Are we talking about
>> the kaccounts-integration repo?
>
>
> KAccounts is basically just the KDE UI for the Accounts-SSO system.
> It's a collection of KCM, which allows you to manage those accounts
> and also KDED daemon which allows to load custom plugins that
> react on those account changes and/or service changes (each account
> has a set of services).
>
> So for example, in the KCM you add a Google account and then the
> KDED module is notified of this and it will pass this info to all its loaded
> plugins. The plugins would then check if the account is of interest and if
> yes, then do something, like set up the calendar integration, for example.
>
> The KDED module also watches for services change, so eg. if in the
> KCM you disable the calendar service, the Google plugin would disable
> the calendar (but not remove). At least that's the idea.
>
> In the case of the kio-gdrive, I'm not sure if you'd need such plugin at
> all.
> I mean, if you don't need to configure anything, then you won't. You can
> just query the credentials data from KAccounts directly from the kio.

Thanks for the detailed reply.

Yes, the slave just needs an account name + tokens for the OAuth thing.
It looks like GetCredentialsJob (thanks @Aleix!) might be exactly what
kio-gdrive needs.

Cheers,
Elvis

>
>>
>> A tutorial would be great, but maybe is enough to look at the KDE
>> Telepathy usage. Could you share more details about this?
>
>
> KDE Telepathy is a bit special case. It builds a lot on the existing
> upstream
> code, which is basically a Mission Control plugin that does exactly what the
> KDED is doing. Ie. there is no KTp KDED plugin, this is all handled by
> Telepathy
> itself.
>
> I'd recommend looking at the kaccounts-mobile repo, which has some code
> for ownCloud stuff, like importing CardDAV contacts iirc.
>
> Cheers
> --
> Martin Klapetek