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Panama/config/dot/quickshell/scripts/panama-accounts
Gabriel Brown 52d896b054 Add an Online Accounts page
GNOME Online Accounts is a daemon plus a D-Bus API, and the daemon
already runs in this session -- gvfs activates it, and all four accounts
on this machine work without gnome-shell involved anywhere. Only the
PANEL was GNOME's. The accounts themselves are ordinary D-Bus objects
that anything may read and modify.

So everything except the initial sign-in is now native: the account
list, per-service toggles for mail, calendar, contacts, files, photos,
music and chat, and removal. That is the whole Online Accounts panel
apart from one OAuth handshake.

Signing in is the exception, and only for OAuth providers. The daemon's
AddAccount takes credentials as an argument -- it stores them, it does
not obtain them -- and the code that runs Google's OAuth exchange lives
in libgoa-backend, which Fedora ships without a GIR binding, so it is
reachable from C only. Reimplementing it would mean our own Google
client credentials. That step is handed to GNOME's panel and the page
says so, because a hand-off the user does not expect reads as a bug.
Password-based providers (Nextcloud, IMAP, WebDAV) could be added
natively later; their credential keys are known now.

Accounts needing re-authentication are surfaced first, which turned up
something immediately: both Google accounts on this machine report
attention_needed, meaning their tokens have expired and they have
stopped syncing. GOA has known that all along and nothing outside its
own panel ever said so.

Every write re-reads the account list rather than assuming it landed.
GOA can refuse, and a toggle that springs back is the honest outcome.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BRvzt4H8XXLPVH5MyYdk9L
2026-08-18 10:34:41 -04:00

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Online accounts, through GNOME Online Accounts.
GOA is a daemon plus a D-Bus API, and it is already running in this session --
gvfs activates it, and the four accounts on this machine work without
gnome-shell involved anywhere. What GNOME owns is only the *panel*; the accounts
themselves are ordinary D-Bus objects that anything may read and modify.
So everything except the initial sign-in is available to us: listing accounts,
turning individual services on and off, and removing an account. That is the
whole Online Accounts panel apart from one OAuth handshake.
Adding an account is the part that splits. The daemon's AddAccount takes
credentials as an ARGUMENT -- it stores them, it does not obtain them. For
password-based providers (Nextcloud, IMAP, WebDAV) that is a username and a
password, which a settings app can reasonably collect. For Google it is an OAuth
token, and the code that runs that exchange lives in libgoa-backend, which
Fedora ships without a GIR binding -- reachable from C only. Reimplementing it
would mean our own Google client credentials. So Google sign-in is handed to
GNOME's panel, and only the sign-in.
Usage:
panama-accounts list
panama-accounts set <object-path> <service> <true|false>
panama-accounts remove <object-path>
"""
import json
import sys
# Every service GOA models. The account object carries one interface per service
# it supports, so presence of the interface is what "this account can do mail"
# means -- there is no capability list to read.
SERVICES = [
("mail", "Mail", "get_mail", "mail_disabled"),
("calendar", "Calendar", "get_calendar", "calendar_disabled"),
("contacts", "Contacts", "get_contacts", "contacts_disabled"),
("files", "Files", "get_files", "files_disabled"),
("photos", "Photos", "get_photos", "photos_disabled"),
("music", "Music", "get_music", "music_disabled"),
("chat", "Chat", "get_chat", "chat_disabled"),
]
def load_client():
import gi
gi.require_version("Goa", "1.0")
from gi.repository import Goa
return Goa.Client.new_sync(None)
def describe(obj):
account = obj.get_account()
services = []
for key, label, getter, disabled_prop in SERVICES:
if getattr(obj, getter)() is None:
continue
services.append({
"key": key,
"label": label,
"enabled": not getattr(account.props, disabled_prop),
})
return {
"path": obj.get_object_path(),
"provider": account.props.provider_type,
"providerName": account.props.provider_name,
# PresentationIdentity is the human one (an email address); Identity is
# the internal handle and is not always readable.
"identity": account.props.presentation_identity or account.props.identity,
# GOA raises this when stored credentials stop working -- an expired
# token, a changed password. It is the one piece of state a user must
# act on, and nothing else surfaces it.
"needsAttention": bool(account.props.attention_needed),
"services": services,
}
def find(client, path):
for obj in client.get_accounts():
if obj.get_object_path() == path:
return obj
return None
def main():
action = sys.argv[1] if len(sys.argv) > 1 else "list"
try:
client = load_client()
except Exception as error: # noqa: BLE001 - any failure here means "no GOA"
# A machine without GOA is a legitimate state, not a crash.
print(json.dumps({
"accounts": [],
"error": f"GNOME Online Accounts is not available: {error}",
}))
return 0
if action == "list":
print(json.dumps({
"accounts": [describe(obj) for obj in client.get_accounts()],
"error": "",
}))
return 0
if action == "set":
if len(sys.argv) != 5:
print("usage: panama-accounts set <path> <service> <true|false>", file=sys.stderr)
return 2
path, service, value = sys.argv[2], sys.argv[3], sys.argv[4]
obj = find(client, path)
if obj is None:
print(f"panama-accounts: no account at {path}", file=sys.stderr)
return 1
match = next((s for s in SERVICES if s[0] == service), None)
if match is None:
print(f"panama-accounts: unknown service {service!r}", file=sys.stderr)
return 2
if getattr(obj, match[2])() is None:
print(f"panama-accounts: this account does not support {service}", file=sys.stderr)
return 1
# The property is "disabled", so enabling a service clears it.
setattr(obj.get_account().props, match[3], value.lower() not in ("true", "1", "yes"))
return 0
if action == "remove":
if len(sys.argv) != 3:
print("usage: panama-accounts remove <path>", file=sys.stderr)
return 2
obj = find(client, sys.argv[2])
if obj is None:
print(f"panama-accounts: no account at {sys.argv[2]}", file=sys.stderr)
return 1
obj.get_account().call_remove_sync(None)
return 0
print("usage: panama-accounts [list|set|remove]", file=sys.stderr)
return 2
if __name__ == "__main__":
sys.exit(main())