https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=480779
--- Comment #83 from Mulder <[email protected]> --- (In reply to TraceyC from comment #82) > (In reply to Mulder from comment #81) > > Why? This bug report is marked as "closed fixed", even though nothing is > > fixed since obviously almost 2 years. Is it normal that such a small problem > > cannot be fixed for so long? > > > > A Google Drive file browser like is essential and even an official part of > > Endeavour KDE. > > Unfortunately, KDE's hands are tied here. It's necessary for any software > that wants to integrate Google Drive to use Google's API to do so. Google > controls access to that, and if they deny us access they deny us. We did > discuss this with them, and pushed hard to justify our use, but they still > refused us. We will probably try to petition them again in the future, but > there are no guarantees they will be more amenable than last time. > > In the meantime, what might get Google to listen is for users like yourself > who are negatively affected by their decision to speak up. Call them out on > social media. Contact their support channels. Make noise. If they can be > convinced to allow us the necessary code access, we would be able to take a > look at re-enabling this integration. > > An alternative for affected folks for now might be rclone, for which there > are UIs available: > https://rclone.org/ Thank you very much for the explanation, Tracey! Here some feedback from a fresh EndeavourOS (and the Google Drive tool recommended by Endeavour): Until your explanation, I wouldn't have understood that this is seemingly mainly a "political" issue, as forum discussion were mainly around authentication. If it's a political thing, maybe you should note that right away (on the tool recommendation page). I'm sure users would be on your side, but if they don't know the background, they'll simply be frustrated by the tool and maybe leave EndeavourOS (or KDE) completely. I'm still not sure what happened, but it sounds like another unfair market behaviour by one of the Goliath companies out there. Maybe Google wants to slow down Linux and foster its own OS, so maybe that's even a case for competition law (as the EU is quite after the big ones). Google is a "gatekeeper", and if their tools can't be used, it's hard to use Linux. Rclone for instance "is a command-line program" - if you work with files on an online storage like Google Drive, a command line program is no practical alternative. You need to be able to simple open and later on save a file, without having to care about synchronization. And I also don't get why programs like Insync and Rclone seem to work, and your tool not? Do they know someone personally at Google? ;) -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
