On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 5:00 AM, Martin Klapetek <martin.klape...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 4:54 AM, Elvis Angelaccio <elvis.angelac...@kde.org> > wrote: >> >> >> Hi Martin, >> I'm planning to integrate KAccounts with kio-gdrive, so your email is >> very much appreciated. >> What exactly is "Kaccounts" in the first place? Are we talking about >> the kaccounts-integration repo? > > > KAccounts is basically just the KDE UI for the Accounts-SSO system. > It's a collection of KCM, which allows you to manage those accounts > and also KDED daemon which allows to load custom plugins that > react on those account changes and/or service changes (each account > has a set of services). > > So for example, in the KCM you add a Google account and then the > KDED module is notified of this and it will pass this info to all its loaded > plugins. The plugins would then check if the account is of interest and if > yes, then do something, like set up the calendar integration, for example. > > The KDED module also watches for services change, so eg. if in the > KCM you disable the calendar service, the Google plugin would disable > the calendar (but not remove). At least that's the idea. > > In the case of the kio-gdrive, I'm not sure if you'd need such plugin at > all. > I mean, if you don't need to configure anything, then you won't. You can > just query the credentials data from KAccounts directly from the kio.
Thanks for the detailed reply. Yes, the slave just needs an account name + tokens for the OAuth thing. It looks like GetCredentialsJob (thanks @Aleix!) might be exactly what kio-gdrive needs. Cheers, Elvis > >> >> A tutorial would be great, but maybe is enough to look at the KDE >> Telepathy usage. Could you share more details about this? > > > KDE Telepathy is a bit special case. It builds a lot on the existing > upstream > code, which is basically a Mission Control plugin that does exactly what the > KDED is doing. Ie. there is no KTp KDED plugin, this is all handled by > Telepathy > itself. > > I'd recommend looking at the kaccounts-mobile repo, which has some code > for ownCloud stuff, like importing CardDAV contacts iirc. > > Cheers > -- > Martin Klapetek
