gnome-online-accounts (GOA) with Xubuntu?

Question

1) Is there some alternative to gnome-online-accounts (GOA) for use in Xubuntu?

2) If I install gnome-online-accounts in Xubuntu it pulls in the following dependencies

The following NEW packages will be installed:
  apg cracklib-runtime cups-pk-helper dconf-cli dleyna-server gir1.2-ibus-1.0 gkbd-capplet
  gnome-bluetooth gnome-control-center gnome-control-center-data gnome-control-center-shared-data
  gnome-online-accounts gnome-settings-daemon gnome-settings-daemon-schemas gnome-user-share ibus
  libcanberra-pulse libcheese-gtk23 libcolord-gtk1 libcrack2 libdleyna-connector-dbus-1.0-1
  libdleyna-core-1.0-3 libgnome-bluetooth13 libgnomekbd-common libgnomekbd8 libgoa-backend-1.0-1
  libgupnp-av-1.0-2 libgupnp-dlna-2.0-3 libibus-1.0-5 libpwquality-common libpwquality1
  libtelepathy-glib0 libwacom-bin libwacom-common libwacom2 mousetweaks nautilus-data realmd
  ubuntu-system-service 

It doesn't look fun and my question is if you can foresee any problems with having these dependencies installed in Xubuntu (15.10)?

Solution

Took the plunge and installed the gnome-online-accounts. No adverse effects seen yet.

In order to use GOA you need to start gnome-control-center as follows:

$ env XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=GNOME gnome-control-center

to trick the desktop to believe it is running GNOME. Worked fine after that and provided Evolution in my case the right authentications for Gmail/Calender etc.

Comments

[muru]

If you find a solution, can you post that as an answer instead of in the question?

[Bengt Olsson]

OK, done, new to AskUbuntu...

[Bengt Olsson]

There is really a superb instruction for GOA on Xubuntu on youtube: youtu.be/Px_1cZZPE-Y

[mazunki]

As an advice, turn off the calendar option if you are getting 100% ram spikes. Kill indicator-datetime first.