In Fedora 21 there is a great google account integration available (mail, calendar), which works with OAuth2 integration. Is there a similar possibility in Ubuntu 14 ?
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1Fedora has not been called "fedora core" for a long time now. You can integrate with google, but not in exactly the same way. See http://www.itworld.com/article/2698080/enterprise-software/add-or-configure-online-accounts-in-ubuntu-14-04.html "Fedora core" was renamed to Fedora in 2007, almost 8 years ago - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/HistoricalSchedules#Fedora_7_.28Codename:_Moonshine.29 – Panther Feb 26 '15 at 15:25
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1Could you be a bit more specific? What (level) of integration are you looking for? If it's application specific integration, then there's a high chance that the same application is present in the Ubuntu repositories as well, just not installed by default. – user283885 Feb 26 '15 at 15:26
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Ok, I've changed it to Fedora 21. I search integration just for Gmail and calendar. I've seen that in Fedora 21 Evolution is used with OAuth2 login. I don't see this possibility in Ubuntu (would have to lower the security level of my Gmail account, which I do not want to do). Is the OAuth2 capability bound to Gnome ? – Marco Feb 26 '15 at 16:18
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I think you can get it by using the GNOME environment in Ubuntu (I do, or Xfce). This the one Fedora defaults to (Ubuntu GNOME does as well), except Fedora usually has a much newer version (I prefer 3.8 or 3.14 - (though 3.10 and 3.12 are easiest to get in Ubuntu).
You can install Gnome 3.14, but it will probably break things (such as Unity) and some bits I think are missing.
But you should still have roughly the same setup - go to Settings > Online Accounts:
You probably can get a similar result with the default nity desktop, but I can't check because I uninstalled Unity on my Ubuntu machines :)
Also Ubuntu has evolution and geary available, both of which I think can sync with GMail without the desktop being integrated as well.
