Re: [Evolution] access to google addressbook is broken

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 18:34 +0200, Milan Crha wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 16:46 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > Do you know if this procedure will get round the problem of SDDM 
> > not 
> > supporting gnome-keyring?
>
>       Hi,
> I'm sorry, what does the 'SDDM' stand for, please? Though GOA is also
> using gnome-keyring (libsecret) to store passwords and access tokens
> (in case of the OAuth), as far as I know.

Simple Desktop Display Manager. It's the default display manager for
KDE in Fedora 22, replacing KDM. However it does not support gnome
-keyring integration. Luckily KDM is still supported for the moment.

> > Or maybe I'm misunderstanding what this does.
>
> The GOA allows you to configure (online) accounts in one place, then
> applications like evolution-source-registry listens for changes in 
> GOA and provides users all what it can from them. There are multiple
> applications which can use GOA-configured accounts in a similar way 
> as the Evolution does (evolution-source-registry, to be more 
> precise). Apart of this, evolution doesn't ask libsecret directly for 
> the
> passwords (access tokens), but asks GOA to get them.

I presume GOA still uses gnome-keyring. In that case it doesn't really
fix my problem. Thanks anyway.

poc