[Sugar-devel] Email client

[Tomeu Vizoso]

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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