KDE Online Accounts and Google - KDE Neon 6.0

Hi gang, first post here. First day using KDE Neon as a purer KDE feeling, coming from a Linux Mint install with KDE.

Most of the time, I’m unable to connect to Google accounts through Online Accounts in settings. Google returns that the browser is not secure.

If I use ONLY the keyboard to navigate the login steps (I don’t touch the mouse), I can get through the login, 2FA, and approval of services. But then I get a “Bad Request.” error with “Loading cancelled” in Dolphin.

I browsed some other posts that indicated the issue was related to an outdated signon-ui library from Keon’s Kubuntu base. One workaround suggests repackaging an rpm to deb, but that seemed to rely on a signon-ui 0.17. My KDE Neon has 0.18 so looks like a downgrade.

Ironically, the Online Accounts feature was working in Linux Mint 23 with KDE slapped on top. Perhaps this is to do with Neon’s 22.04 base?

I really like my first day of KDE Neon, congrats to the team. I’d love to keep it as my daily driver. Would love to read if there’s any hope for native Google Drive integration in it.

Thanks in advance,
Fred

Curious if you ever found a solution. I am experiencing the same: not able to access Google Drive in KDE Neon 6.0.

Nothing yet (tested again today), but it’s not as if I’ve been doing anything but waiting and doing run-of-the-mill software updates. I’ll add that I can only get through the “your browser is not secure” prompt by changing language from English (US) to English (UK) on the Google dialogue. Same behaviour whether doing the workflow in Dolphin or Settings.

Same issue here with KDE Plasma 6 on endeavouros

BTW, if you can get to the password prompt you can try the method here it may work for u: Kmail, Gmail, 2FA, OAUTH - #7 by Carlos999

Unfortunately, I have tried to use keyboard only too, but I still get “browser is not secure” msg

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After upgrading to Neon 6.2 last week, I just tried again. Was able to add my first account seamlessly. My two other accounts got the “browser is not secure” message, which I was able to get around by switching the language in the dialogue from English (US) to English (UK) and retrying.
Probably anecdotal but perhaps related, but by first account is just letters before the @gmail.com, and the two others have periods in them.
I guess YMMV.