I fully understand the challenges involved in maintaining online account integrations in KDE, especially due to proprietary APIs that make development difficult. While I know this isn’t a top priority for the KDE ecosystem, I’m convinced that better support for Microsoft accounts even just for core services like OneDrive or Outlook could significantly ease the transition for Windows users switching to Linux. This could be a key selling point to attract a broader audience, without compromising the open-source principles that make KDE so strong.
I don’t think supporting a closed proprietary platform whose main function is to tie folks to the Microsoft ecosystem should be a top priority for KDE or time well-spent for our already stretched-thin developers.
That said, if you would like to make it happen, by al means join us:
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OneDrive access is being worked on
I think there is also an Exchange connector for KDE’s PIM infrastructure.
Might be possible to do an Online Accounts entry that configures both
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And why are these two technologies not directly accessible in the settings?
The OneDrive access is under development and on its own release cycle until it is mature enough to be part of the main releases.
Some distributions might start packaging it earlier.
The Exchange connector already is one of the options when adding a “receiving” account in KMail. At least that is what I see here on KDE Neon.
in the gnome-settings online-accounts has Microsoft 365 available and works with onedrive, mail, calendar even with multiple family-members in KDE evolution, also system-wide. I would like to switch from gnome to KDE, but I need onedrive and the calendar from microsoft 365.
You can continue to use Evolution for mail and calendar.
You can find information about OneDrive accessor here