Who here has ACTUALLY connected LibreOffice to Google Drive, personally, themselves?

[reddragdiva]

Connecting to Google Drive as a CMIS provider (edit using a proper word processor, save to Google Docs) is something LibreOffice can supposedly do.

I've been trying for a while on Ubuntu, using (a) the Ubuntu distro 4.2, (b) a hand-compiled 4.4beta (with --enable-ext-google-docs) (c) Windows LO 4.2 under Wine and (d) the Windows 4.4beta under Wine, and I can't get it to work.

Assume I've read the HOWTOs. Has anyone here actually got this to work themselves? Not a link to a HOWTO, not reports someone else did, but you personally. How did you get it to work? Which version and platform?

(There's also a feature request to give this a decent interface. This would be a FANTASTIC feature to have working out of the box.)

Others have hit bug 72646. No successful reports as yet.

Update: One report of success on Windows, though not on Linux (though hellsop couldn't get it to work on Windows).

Update: HOLY CRAP I GOT IT TO WORK. Windows 7, LO 4.3 and 4.4beta. Tools->Options->General, set native dialogues. Open. Click "Servers ..." or just "..." at the top. Enter a name, set CMIS, set Google Drive, click the twisty arrow, enter username (e.g. dgerard@gmail.com) and password, enter a master password, enter username again, click "OK". You should now have Google as a drive you can go to. You need to hit ctrl-S to save files, they don't autosave, but that's fiiiine.

LO 4.4beta for Windows under Wine 1.7 still doesn't work. I click the twisty arrow and it hangs. I'm presuming some obscure networky thing isn't implemented in Wine.

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Comments

Any news?

[(Anonymous)]

Any news?
Hi, have you got any news about that theme?
I'm working on Ubuntu 14.04 whit LO 4.4 and I could not implement that feature in LO...

Re: Any news?

[reddragdiva]

Yes! I got it to work with a binary I compiled from source. I used the TDF Google OAuth developer keys, so I can't write it up in a blog entry until I successfully obtain my own keys from Google and describe how to do so ... and it's clunky as hell ... but it does actually work.

[(Anonymous)]

It would be nice if the developers there could fix this issue on the TDF builds... for all to use it.
Please, keep posting news about the issue.

[reddragdiva]

*psst* actual answer.

So, how will this be resolved?

[(Anonymous)]

I read the mail thread, but it is somehow technical. In the end, what can be done to get an official build that connects to gdrive?...

Re: So, how will this be resolved?

[reddragdiva]

• The TDF Windows build works on Windows. (It does not work on Linux run through Wine.)
  
• The TDF Linux build should work on Linux.
  
• The TDF Mac build should work on Mac.
  
• Linux distro builds (including Ubuntu PPA builds) don't work for this.
  
• If you're on Linux, compiling from source should work, using that autogen.sh line. It's complicated and trepidatious for someone who's never compiled something from source before, but relatively simple as such things go.
  

[(Anonymous)]

I think that is important for LO and Google implement that. Office.live by MS already do this and is a very important market to compete.

[reddragdiva]

And two-factor (which presently doesn't work at all). We use Google Apps at work, and the word processor and spreadsheet are barely-functional and the .docx import is bloody dismal. But LO just working as a client for Google Drive would make my life much nicer.