How to integrate Gmail, Google contacts and Google calendar into Unity without Thunderbird or Evolution?

Question

I want to integrate my Google contacts, calender and Gmail to Unity. And I don´t want to use Thunderbird or even worse Evolution.

Is there a possibility like in GNOME 3.xx? A lightweight contact / calendar / mail app (maybe one app for contact, one for calendar) would be welcome.

Edit: I want to use the calender to sync my appointments with google - e.g. I open my "ubuntu-calender", make a new appointment and it syncs with google calendar. Also return way.

The same with contacts. I want a see and edit all my contacts in an app and have them sync with google.

Gmail: A notifyer would be enough - just one click on the notifyer and it opens googlemail in chrome. Otherwise an lightweigth email client.

Kind regards mpm

Solution 1

You can install Ubuntu’s New Web Apps Feature of Ubuntu 12.04 & 12.10. This will allow you to integrate your Gmail and Google Calender to the desktop, and make them first class citizen on your computer. This will allow for system notification pop-ups, HUD integration, and other Unity features. This is how to install it:

Open the Terminal and type these commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webapps/preview
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install unity-webapps-preview

Now log out and log back in for the change to take affect. The time next you visit Gmail or Google Calender on Firefox or Chromium, they will ask if you want to integrate with the desktop.

Here is some more reading on the subject:

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/07/ubuntu-unveil-new-web-apps-feature-for-12-10

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/07/list-of-that-websites-support-unitys-new-web-apps-feature

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/07/how-to-install-ubuntus-new-web-apps-feature

Hope this helps!

Solution 2

For calendar try plasma-widget-googlecalendar For gmail you should find only notifiers (gnome-mail, gmail-notify, gnome-mail-notifier, checkgmail, gm-notify, unity-mail, etc..) or mail clients (claws-mail, balsa, postler, and so on). For Contacts, I'm afraid you can find only Unity Lens, as you can read here: http://iloveubuntu.net/unity-contacts-lens-brings-ubuntu-one-and-google-contacts-dash

Just a couriousity: why not Evolution/Thunderbird?

Comments

[stephenmyall]

You should elaborate on your answer and name the specific appliclations you are refering to. The questioner is asking a specific question

[mpm]

Thx to jasmines. I´ll give them a try. I don´t like tb / evol. - it´s to much for me - and it doesn´t integrate with google mail (like archive the mails..)

[otus]

Note that this is still beta software.

[Sanam Patel]

And all of these integrate with Unity?

[Dustin]

You gave the answer, shouldn't you elaborate more, rather then sending the person off after making brief suggestions?

[mmoya]

Downvoting this. It's not nice to send people elsewhere.

[Nearoo]

This doesn't work anymore, for me at least - after installing the packages, neither Firefox nor Chrome ask me if I want to use it. Is it still supported? I'm using Ubuntu 16.04

[SDsolar]

I will NEVER change my repositories for any reason. If it can't be done by normal methods I do not want it on my production systems. nIt would simply add more documentation workload to make sure it is another page of documentation for each and every system's configuration for security audits. And those pages would require audits of the repositories. No way. Nu-huh. Period. I would have a revolt on my hands if I allowed anything like this in our shop.

[SDsolar]

This is just an opinion statement. No facts here. Nothing to see. Move on.