# Online Accounts

**URL:** <https://discuss.kde.org/t/online-accounts/32609>\
**Category:** Help\
**Tags:** plasma, akonadi\
**Created:** [April 8, 2025, 8:39pm UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/online-accounts/32609 "2025-04-08T20:39:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![Munnones](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Munnones](https://discuss.kde.org/u/Munnones)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 8:39pm UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/online-accounts/32609/1 "2025-04-08T20:39:32Z")

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Is the Online Accounts app in System Settings good for anything? I have set up an account where I have synchronized my mobile contacts and calendars but nothing happens; in Kontact nothing comes out, as if I had to set it up by hand, in which case, as I said at first, why is there “Online Accounts”? Maybe I need to install/configure something else?

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**Author:** ![Munnones](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Munnones](https://discuss.kde.org/u/Munnones)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2025, 4:13pm UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/online-accounts/32609/2 "2025-04-10T16:13:14Z")

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Excuse my insistence, I ask you to forgive my lack of knowledge of the label standards of this forum, I have never participated actively in Internet forums, but what does it mean to ignore a question? Does the rest of the people here really work out well online accounts out of the box? Really none of you had to install or set anything else up or just for some incomprehensible reason you don’t like me and that’s why you ignore me?

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**Author:** ![johnandmegh](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/user_avatar/discuss.kde.org/johnandmegh/32/767_2.png) [@johnandmegh](https://discuss.kde.org/u/johnandmegh)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2025, 5:04pm UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/online-accounts/32609/3 "2025-04-10T17:04:03Z")

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Hi - a forum like this would get overwhelmed pretty quickly if everyone who didn’t have a helpful response replied with “Sorry, I don’t know!”.

A lack of replies so far indicates that in the \<48 hours since your post, none of the folks who have viewed your post had helpful suggestions - this isn’t always surprising, especially if the question happens to be about a less-frequently-used feature or less-commonly-encountered issue.

Sometimes it takes a bit of time for a person with helpful perspective to have the chance to visit the forums and craft such a reply 🙂

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**Author:** ![Munnones](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Munnones](https://discuss.kde.org/u/Munnones)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2025, 7:55pm UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/online-accounts/32609/4 "2025-04-12T19:55:33Z")

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Thank you for your careful answer, johnandmegh.

I understand what you’re saying, it makes sense, but the impression it gives to the one who asks -at least it has been for me 😅- is as if the community was ignoring him.  
I guess the generation we’ve grown up with “Insta” and Tiktok are too used to the excitement of these type of social networks and I must look at this new means of interaction with colder.

What brings my attention to it is that almost no one uses the Online Accounts function when we have more services in the cloud every day -for what to keep Online Accounts if no one uses it?- I thought it would be as convenient for the majority as KDE Conect, for example.  
But well, I guess the cloud thing isn’t as widespread as I thought on desktop computers.  
This is a reflection to myself, anyways.

Thanks for your explanation once again.  
Best regards.

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**Author:** ![dsilva](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/user_avatar/discuss.kde.org/dsilva/32/24239_2.png) [@dsilva](https://discuss.kde.org/u/dsilva)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2025, 5:04pm UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/online-accounts/32609/5 "2025-05-18T17:04:50Z")

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I feel the same as you.

In GNOME, you setup an account in the system settings, and _voilá_: mail, calendar, cloud storage and contacts; it’s all set for you.

In KDE, you have to connect from the system settings to get cloud storage; then again in KMail to get mail; KOrganizer to get calendar; Kontact to get contacts. Each app has its own account configuration.

I really wish it was all unified into the system settings. I hope this feedback reaches the developers.

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**Author:** ![dsilva](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/user_avatar/discuss.kde.org/dsilva/32/24239_2.png) [@dsilva](https://discuss.kde.org/u/dsilva)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2025, 5:12pm UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/online-accounts/32609/6 "2025-05-18T17:12:04Z")

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Relevant issue in the Brainstorm category:

> [@Why does every KDE PIM program have its own account configuration UI? Why no KCM for that?](https://discuss.kde.org/t/why-does-every-kde-pim-program-have-its-own-account-configuration-ui-why-no-kcm-for-that/6803):
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> I’ve been baffled why KDE has so many different places for configuring online accounts. Every KDE PIM app comes with its own slightly different UI where you can set up Akonadi resources. The underlying set of resources is the same, but they are shown in different ways. There seems to be no discoverable place where I can manage them all in a single location. When people create a new app, like the Merkuro developers did, they create their separate new configuration UI, again for managing the same …

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**Author:** ![dsilva](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/user_avatar/discuss.kde.org/dsilva/32/24239_2.png) [@dsilva](https://discuss.kde.org/u/dsilva)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2025, 5:24pm UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/online-accounts/32609/7 "2025-05-18T17:24:54Z")

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Sorry for the third comment here. I can’t edit the previous messages at this point. I just want to make a correction:

> In KDE, you have to connect from the system settings to get cloud storage; then again in KMail to get mail; KOrganizer to get calendar; Kontact to get contacts. Each app has its own account configuration.

It seems you need to setup your accounts once through system settings (KAccounts) and then once more for the Akonadi apps (KMail, KOrganizer, Kontact).

I had trouble configuring each of those apps and ended up having to reconfigure the accounts for each of them. As you can see, you only have to do it twice — assuming nothing goes wrong.