[Sugar-devel] Email client

[Carol Farlow Lerche]

Works for me on Linux.

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 11:00 PM, Grant Bowman <grantbow at gmail.com> wrote:

> I tried gears with gmail on my home Windows XP machine but it just
> freezes firefox so I have to force quit.
>
> --
> -- Grant Bowman                                   <grantbow at gmail.com>
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 5:10 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 23:07, David Cabo <david.cabo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>  What's the current status of Gears on the XO? Can it be added to
> Browser? I
> >> remember someone started working on it a few months ago, but
> unfortunately I
> >> don't know if they were successful.
> >>
> >>  The reason I'm asking is that GMail is currently rolling out offline
> >> support, although it's disabled by default at the moment:
> >> http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/new-in-labs-offline-gmail.html
> >
> > Last I looked, Gears worked in Browse, but you had to unzip the .xpi
> > and put the different bits in two or three different places.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Tomeu
> >
> >>  Regards,
> >>
> >> /david
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Gabriel Eirea <geirea at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> 2009/1/30 Grant Bowman <grantbow at gmail.com>:
> >>> > Thank you Caryl and Caroline for forwarding this (originally) from
> >>> > olpc-sur (south) mail list.  As the Spanish description of the
> >>> > original email mentions, developers don't always know how they are
> >>> > used in the classrooms.  I'm curious from a Sugar development
> >>> > perspective exactly how they are working with email in their class.
> >>> > As the teacher says in the video, email is "fundamental."
> >>> >
> >>> > Are they using a web based email client or something running locally?
> >>> > The first girl who spoke said it's asynchronous and you don't have to
> >>> > be connected.  She may be talking about downloading from email,
> >>> > working locally and then copying and pasting finished work to a
> >>> > web-based email client but it doesn't sound like it to me.
> >>>
> >>> That's exactly what I understood from their description. The teacher
> >>> sends an email with an attachment. The children download it with gmail
> >>> at the school and store the attachment in the Journal. Then they take
> >>> it home, work on it, and when they return to school they send their
> >>> work to the teacher using gmail again.
> >>>
> >>> An email activity with replication or however it is called (making a
> >>> local copy of the emails and synchronizing automatically with the
> >>> server whenever there is connectivity), would be very useful so they
> >>> are not limited to attachments only.
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>>
> >>> Gabriel
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