From: Dirk-Jan C. Binnema Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:23:16 +0000 (+0000) Subject: * modest: X-Git-Tag: git_migration_finished~4032 X-Git-Url: http://git.maemo.org/git/?p=modest;a=commitdiff_plain;h=0fb1eaeb9586d08cf7bb504ffffe6bb09578974e;ds=sidebyside * modest: - homepage added pmo-trunk-r849 --- diff --git a/html/index.html b/html/index.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9e39fb8 --- /dev/null +++ b/html/index.html @@ -0,0 +1,69 @@ + + + + +modest e-mail + + +

modest development page

+(indeed, this is a developers-page, not an end-user page; modest is not yet ready for end-users, but we're working on that!) +

welcome

+Welcome! modest is a small e-mail +program specifically targetting modest hardware, such as low-end PCs and +internet tablets like the Nokia 770 and N800 internet +tablets. It's not meant as a replacement for more +full-featured e-mail programs, such +as MS-Outlook, Evolution or KMail. +

modest 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. Note + however, that at this stage it's still very 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. +

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. +

get the code:svn checkout https://garage.maemo.org/svn/modest/trunk + +

frontends

+Currently, there are two frontends for modest: one for general Linux-Desktop usage (gtk), and one for the Nokia 770/N800 (maemo). 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. +

Modest with the gtk-frontend runs on desktop-Linux (tested with + recent Ubuntu, on i386 and AMD64). The maemo-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). + +

dependencies

+modest depends on the excellent tinymail e-mail framework, +written by Philip Van Hoof. Tinymail, +in turn, depends on Camel, 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 - camel-lite. This is shipped +as part of tinymail. + +

documentation

+There's quite a bit of developer documentation available: + +In addition, there's of course the documentation for GTK+/GLib and Maemo. +

contributing and mailing list

+You are of course very welcome to contribute to our efforts! Please take a +look at the HACKING-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 modest mailing list. +

licence

+modest is available under a BSD-like license. Please refer to the source code for the details. +
+©2007 Nokia Corporation + diff --git a/html/modest20070223-gtk.png b/html/modest20070223-gtk.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ae3d38c Binary files /dev/null and b/html/modest20070223-gtk.png differ diff --git a/html/modest20070223.png b/html/modest20070223.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..62c5724 Binary files /dev/null and b/html/modest20070223.png differ