I was really enjoying KDE Neon’s built-in Google Drive integration (kio-gdrive) on my new work laptop, until it suddenly stopped working.
Now, when I even try to log-in to my Google Account through System Settings > Online Accounts, it hangs the moment I type in my email. I have had some people suggest this is an issue on Google’s side, but if it helps I’m using 23.04.3-0xneon+22.04+jammy+release+build18 .
I’m trying to set this up for the first time on a fresh install, getting something somewhat similar. Did you ever find out what was causing your issue, and how to resolve it?
The whole situation is very sucky. Google changes the way their 3rd-party authentication system works at random, with no warning and no documentation about it. We adapt to it, and then it breaks again.
It’s pretty clear they want you using their websites and apps rather than 3rd-party clients.
I would personally recommend migrating away from Google services to whatever extent it’s practical for you.
Again, this is a work computer. And our workplace likes Google.
Had this been a personal cloud service, sure, I’ll do it on the dime. But that’s not possible so I might as well contribute to getting Drive working on KDE.
It’s a shame that Google’s own developers will comply with propertiary OS’ (Microsoft and Apple) demands and maintain working versions of Drive for Win/Mac, but then will gatekeep distros like this.
This is maybe not the place to ask this, but have you ever tried reaching out to Google directly, maybe the gLinux team? Maybe it’s just that they haven’t realized it’s broken even though there are people interested in maintaining intergrations.
I’m afraid I’m not a cynic enough to just say “companies bad”. Google has a FOSS faction, regardless, which seems to be removed from the software maintanence cycle.
That is a problem and it can and should be solved.
And regarding signon-ui/signond, the thread suggests that the break is an oversight more than anything. As the earliest working version was committed some 5 years ago, I will give both Google and Debian maintainers the benefit of the doubt on this one. It’s neither a consious matter of Google harvesting more data, nor maintainers de-googling it.