It's Now Possible to Access Your Google Drive Account on KDE Plasma 5 Desktops

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

KDE developer Elvis Angelaccio is happy to report on the general availability of a new package that makes it possible for fans of the KDE Plasma 5 desktop environment to access their Google Drive accounts without any weird tricks.

Yes, that’s right, native Google Drive integration has finally landed for KDE Plasma 5 desktops, and the implementation is possible if you’re running the kaccounts-provider 17.04 and kio-gdrive 1.2 packages that are included in the KDE Applications 17.04 software suite.

“It is based on the KAccounts framework, which contains the KDE bits of the Accounts-SSO cross-desktop project,” said Elvis Angelaccio in a blog announcement. “Right now it works just fine and besides GDrive, in Plasma is also used by Telepathy, Purpose (for YouTube), and the recent Nextcloud plugin.”

Here’s how to enable Google Drive support on your KDE Plasma 5 desktop

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