Bug 446580

Summary:	Contact synchronization with google doesn't work.
Product:	[Applications] kaddressbook	Reporter:	Sławek <slawomir.ajon>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	critical	CC:	budinero, carl, criguada, dcalvino, hotsolce, Max.Buchholz, omar.helali, r.kunschke, rhs.message, tokoe
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.18.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Neon
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:	23.4.01
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Sławek 2021-12-06 21:03:13 UTC

SUMMARY
I can't synchronize contacts with google account anymore.

After fresh install of Neon, synchronization of my contacts with google doesn't work. Address book can be created but is not synchronized with server.


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Create address book for google account.
2. Authenticate withing google to allow kaddressbook  to access your contact details.
3. Refresh the folder - no update.

OBSERVED RESULT
Synchronization doesn't work.

EXPECTED RESULT
Synchronization of contacts should work.

Comment 1 Solace 2022-01-04 02:34:42 UTC

All the google contacts labels appear, but no contacts are sync'd to the system.

Comment 2 Rick 2022-03-03 09:57:41 UTC

Operating System: FreeBSD 13.0
KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.1
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.90.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 13.0-RELEASE-p7 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Memory: 15.9 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa DRI Intel® HD Graphics 3000


Not only is the Gcontact import stub not working, but, manually trying to add a Vcard file will not work either. You now have to request your data be sent to you by google if you want a vcard formated list of your contacts. This should at the minimum work locally. What a disappointment after successfully setting up what seems to be a very good imap server with Kmail.

Comment 3 r.kunschke 2022-07-11 11:12:32 UTC

The problem still remains since months or longer.
There are lot of duplicated bug reports which shows the importance.

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=446580
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=451621
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=452322
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=359178
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332224

Comment 4 Colin J Thomson 2022-07-11 23:05:05 UTC

I think most/all of these bug reports should be marked "resolved dupe" of bug #439285 to tidy things up a bit? 
Basically libkgapi needs fixing as mentioned in the bug report. bug #439285 comment 15
Sadly #439285 is also over a year old, lack of resources I guess :-(

Comment 5 Carl Schwan 2023-04-27 22:10:14 UTC

We recently for 23.04.0 made google contact work again. This was not a trivial task as can be seen by the gigantic merge request https://invent.kde.org/pim/libkgapi/-/merge_requests/22