From: Dirk-Jan C. Binnema Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 10:09:55 +0000 (+0000) Subject: * updated webpage; i guess the webpage needs some more love... X-Git-Tag: git_migration_finished~4823 X-Git-Url: http://git.maemo.org/git/?p=modest;a=commitdiff_plain;h=97ab68691fbc6b60a2a029429a95e8bfb608d1b9 * updated webpage; i guess the webpage needs some more love... pmo-trunk-r22 --- diff --git a/html/index.html b/html/index.html index e6cb5ac..588669f 100644 --- a/html/index.html +++ b/html/index.html @@ -1,26 +1,69 @@ - - -Modest eMail Client - - -

About

- Modest is a small and fast email client application for Maemo and plain GTK+. -

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Project information

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modest - a modest e-mail client

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what is it

+modest is an e-mail client designed for systems with modest +hardware (by 2006 standards). Main target for this is the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet and the GPE-environment. But the software will of +course also work on systems with less-modest hardware, such as desktop PCs. + +

what does it consist of

+modest uses well-known and lesser-known open-source components: +

libcamel: libcamel is the e-mail handling + library originally designed for the Evolution e-mail client. It + supports all the usual (POP3, IMAP, SMTP) protocols, and some unusual as + well, such as Microsoft Exchange and Novell Groupwise. + +
tinymail: while libcamel is very powerful, it also + requires quite a bit of memory. Enter tinymail, an + email-client development framework, written by Philip van Hoof. + With tinymail, libcamel can be used in a very memory-efficient way. + +
GTK+ and/or Hildon: for its + user-interface, modest supports multiple + user-interfaces. Both plain-GTK+ and Hildon-UIs + - the latter + for the running on the 770, and the former for use in other environments, + such as GPE and Linux-desktops. +

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frequently asked questions

Q: what does modest require?. modest + in its GTK+ incarnation requires libcamel, tinymail and + gtk+ 2.6 or higher and libglade. For Hildon, also the + hildon libraries are required. + +
Q: will it run on Windows?. Well, maybe. All + the components should run on Windows, so in theory the program should + work. We haven't tried that yet, though. Please tell us if you got it running! + +
Q: will it run on MacOS?. Well, maybe. All + the components should there - and it should be a lot easier than on + Windows. Again, we haven't tried it. Please tell us if you got it working! + +
Q: how can I contribute? Check out the code from subversion: + svn checkout https://garage.maemo.org/svn/modest. +

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linkorama

+Some interesting links: +

Tinymail SVN +

Camel e-mail handling library +

Spuug GObject code generator +

Camel e-mail handling library +

Spuug GObject code generator +

GTK+ Reference +

GLib Reference +