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 <gei...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/1/30 Grant Bowman <grant...@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 > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >
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