Bug 158907

Summary:	Google contact support
Product:	[Applications] kontact	Reporter:	Luis Silva <lacsilva>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	c.rebler, dbroome, finex, kenshinjonin
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Luis Silva 2008-03-07 13:55:41 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 3.5.9KDE 1.2)
Installed from:    00

Google exposes both contacts and calendar access to information. All pim applications should be able to take advantage of this API natively.

Comment 1 FiNeX 2008-03-07 15:07:22 UTC

I've tried to syncronize the google calendar with korganizer, it works in read only mode.

Luis, please vote to this request too.

Comment 2 Thomas McGuire 2008-03-10 13:12:08 UTC

For google calendar support, see bug 125952.
I've changed this bug to only cover Google contact then.

Comment 3 Luis Silva 2008-03-10 13:43:18 UTC

I have been using GCALDaemon (http://gcaldaemon.sourceforge.net/) for read/write access but it is java and doesn't handle well different computers on different timezones.

Comment 4 Greisberger Christophe 2008-07-15 22:15:05 UTC

I think it has not much sense, since Google contact has far less informations than KAddressBook.
But well, be able to push a truncated version of the contacts to GMail would perhaps be interesting (write only sync then).

Comment 5 Luis Silva 2008-07-16 10:30:11 UTC

Let me give you a simple use case. Suppose I'm travelling and use a public computer to read my e-mail (web interface). During the process I add a few new contacts to the on-line gmail address book. When I come back I would like to have all those new contacts in sync with my computer at home and work. The reverse is also true. I would like the new contacts in my kaddressbook visible in my gmail address book when I'm travelling. I agree that gmail will not have as much information as kaddressbook and even less than akonadi but at least e-mail and phone number are essential for me.

Comment 6 Grégory 2008-08-20 16:50:45 UTC

There's a Thunderbird extension who does this sync. It uses xml tags in the "additional contact information" field in Gmail to store information that wouldn't fit in other fields...

Comment 7 Christophe Marin 2009-04-24 21:45:11 UTC

*** Bug 170075 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Luis Silva 2009-10-19 14:25:30 UTC

I believe this bug can be closed as there is already support for google contacts and calendar in akonadi. I'm using it.