[sugar] Porting apps, which ones?

[Bert Freudenberg]

Am 20.10.2006 um 13:43 schrieb Ivan Krsti?:

> Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>> I was thinking that maybe an email activity would be very nice to  
>> have.
>> Clean and simple, this is for kids, remember. My own kids are
>> overwhelmed by something like Thunderbird. Also, later an integration
>> with the other stuff (journal, clipboard, etc) would be needed.
>
> This is planned; we have an (unofficial) document looking at existing
> mail clients and the features we'd want to provide:
>
> http://dev.laptop.org/git.do?p=users/jrus/email- 
> spec;a=blob;hb=HEAD;f=email-spec.text
>
> However, Nicholas is opposed to rolling our own mail app for rev1,  
> since
> there are a bunch of open infrastructure questions that we ideally
> wouldn't have to deal with until rev2. So for the time being, it's
> assumed we're going with GMail for e-mail in rev1.

Oh, Google will like a couple millions new users a lot I guess.

Did anybody try, though? GMail is AJAX, isn't it? Is it usable?

- Bert -