Works for me on Linux. On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 11:00 PM, Grant Bowman <grant...@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 <grant...@gmail.com> > > > On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 5:10 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <to...@sugarlabs.org> wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 23:07, David Cabo <david.c...@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 <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 > -- "Don't think for a minute that power concedes. We have to work like our future depends on it." -- Barack Obama
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