[Sugar-devel] Email client

[David Cabo]

 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

 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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