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+<img src="modest20070223.png" border="0" align="right"><h1>modest development page</h1>
+<em><small>(indeed, this is a <strong>developers</strong>-page, not an end-user page; modest is not yet ready for end-users, but we're working on that!)</small></em>
+<h2>welcome</h2>
+Welcome! <tt><strong>modest</strong></tt> is a small e-mail
+program specifically targetting modest hardware, such as low-end PCs and
+internet tablets like the <em>Nokia 770</em> and <em>N800</em> internet
+tablets. It's <strong>not</strong> meant as a replacement for more
+full-featured e-mail programs, such
+as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_Outlook"
+>MS-Outlook</a>, <a href="http://www.go-evolution.org/Main_Page"
+>Evolution</a> or <a href="http://kmail.kde.org/" >KMail</a>.
+<p><tt>modest</tt> was born in the first half of 2006 already, but it was
+ mostly a little experiment. Lately, we've been putting some more energy and
+ resources in the development. And as of the end of February 2007, we are
+ opening development for the outside world as well. <strong>Note</strong>
+ however, that at this stage it's still <em>very</em> experimental, and we
+ are targetting developers and hackers only; that is why we are not providing
+ installable packages yet. We hope that will change soon though. We're at the
+ stage where have a lot of the lego bricks made, but need to put them
+ together. This is not replacement for any existing e-mail client yet.
+ Please bear with us.
+<p>As you can see from the screenshots, the UI is still a bit rough. Other
+things that are not working yet are address book integration, attachments and
+backups. But, modest should be usable for some light e-mailing action. No
+guarantees however, that it will not send suggestive e-mails to your boss, or
+turn your hair gray.
+<p><strong>get the code:</strong><tt>svn checkout https://garage.maemo.org/svn/modest/trunk</tt>
+
+<h2>frontends</h2>
+<img src="modest20070223-gtk.png" border="0" align="right">Currently, there are two frontends for modest: one for general Linux-Desktop usage (<tt>gtk</tt>), and one for the Nokia 770/N800 (<tt>maemo</tt>). The software is structured in such a way that it would be quite easy to add additional frontends, but we're concentrating on these two.
+<p>Modest with the <tt>gtk</tt>-frontend runs on desktop-Linux (tested with
+ recent Ubuntu, on i386 and AMD64). The <tt>maemo</tt>-frontend runs on N800
+ Internet Tablets, and in the corresponding scratchbox environment. (It
+ should work on 770 as well, but that will require some work in tinymail).
+
+<h2>dependencies</h2>
+<tt>modest</tt> depends on the excellent <a href="http://www.tinymail.org"
+ >tinymail e-mail framework</a>,
+written by <a href="http://pvanhoof.be/blog/" >Philip Van Hoof</a>. Tinymail,
+in turn, depends on <a href="http://www.go-evolution.org/Camel" >Camel</a>, a
+mature e-mail protocol library that is also used by Evolution. Note that the
+version of Camel that tinymail uses is not the 'official' version, but instead
+a version that is optimized for small memory usage - <tt>camel-lite</tt>. This is shipped
+as part of tinymail.
+
+<h2>documentation</h2>
+There's quite a bit of developer documentation available:
+<ul>
+ <li>The <a href="https://garage.maemo.org/projects/modest/">modest garage project page</a>;
+ <li>The <strong>modest technical reference</strong> (in svn);
+ <li>The <a href="http://tinymail.org/trac/tinymail" >Tinymail reference</a>;
+ <li>The <a href="http://www.go-evolution.org/Camel" >Camel Library docs</a>
+</ul>
+In addition, there's of course the documentation for <a href="http://www.gtk.org/api/" >GTK+/GLib</a> and <a href="http://maemo.org/platform/docs/api-index.html" >Maemo</a>.
+<h2>contributing and mailing list</h2>
+You are of course very welcome to contribute to our efforts! Please take a
+look at the <tt>HACKING</tt>-file in the source distribution to see what conventions we are using. Of course it's also good to discuss your plans/suggestions etc. on the <strong>modest mailing list</strong>.
+<h2>licence</h2>
+<tt>modest</tt> is available under a BSD-like license. Please refer to the source code for the details.
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+<em>©2007 Nokia Corporation</em>
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