google gears on n900 / n810
 

Google gears on the n810 would solve all my calendar, mail app, office app and synchronization needs. Is there any chance of getting a browser with gears compatibility / functionality on my n810 or the n900 ?


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from:
http://code.google.com/apis/gears/ge...inuxCompatible


# Benefits of a web app as a desktop app:

* One codebase vs. a desktop application's various client (OS X, Linux, Windows) codebases
* Easy auto-update mechanism (updating JavaScript, HTML, CSS, manifest version number) vs. desktop application's complicated software update process


What does Gears require to be compatible with my Linux system?
If you'd like to run the Gears for Firefox on a Linux (32-bit) platform, please make sure your system has glibc 2.3.5 or higher and libstdc++6 (Gears 0.3) or libstdc++5 (Gears pre-0.3)

Linux - Firefox - Files are stored in the user home directory.
Location: ~bob/.mozilla/firefox/<firefox's profile id>/Gears for Firefox
Example: ~bob/.mozilla/firefox/08ywpi3q.default/Gears for Firefox

Re: google gears on n900 / n810
 

great question...i second it

Re: google gears on n900 / n810
 

I think everyone agrees with this. The problem is it's a Google product & as such you have to ask Google to pretty please give it to you. There was actually a binary made available on a forum but people had pretty limited success with it. For more info see:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=27650
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=17174

Going forward, maybe Fennec (Firefox Mobile) will help?

Re: google gears on n900 / n810
 

Thanks for the answer, even though it means we just have to keep on waiting and cross our fingers that google gears support may come one day. I have not found any fennec - google gears related news; are there any 'official' plans to bring gears to fennec?

Re: google gears on n900 / n810
 

Can we please stop Google bashing????

"Gears is open source software, licensed under the New BSD license. . . . The New BSD license allows you to embed the Gears runtime or API in your software, with very minimal restrictions."
http://code.google.com/apis/gears/ge...ml#needLicense

The source code is here (and can be checked out anonymously for the Google paranoids among us) :

http://code.google.com/p/gears/source/checkout

Re: google gears on n900 / n810
 

Thanks for clarifying that.

So now we "only" need someone to compile the source code as a fennec add-on (or for other maemo browsers).

Re: google gears on n900 / n810
 

I'd volunteer but the last compiler I used was for COBOL on an IBM 3090. :o

Re: google gears on n900 / n810
 

This is the one thing that I still really miss on my N800. Being able to update a calendar or to-do list, from my computer or my Tablet, and have that on my NIT even while I'm offline, without bothering with GPE/Erminig/etc., would just be the best.

Between this thread and this other thread, it seems it ought to be possible.

Any chance that any of you great coders are going to give this a shot for Tear or MicroB in Diablo?

(I haven't followed syncing in Fremantle although I've seen thread titles about it. Is it even useful/necessary for Fremantle and is anything happening on that score?)

Re: google gears on n900 / n810
 

*agreement, vehement agreement*

Aside, any pointers to how to reconcile gcal & GPE after (I assume it was the daylight savings switch) some, but not all my recurring appointments moved forward 1 hr in time?

Re: google gears on n900 / n810
 

I second this. we really need gears for fennec in maemo :)