On 4/17/07, JL <jl.biord at free.fr> wrote: > > But the question is why Nokia prefer write a new email client less > powerful (not usable in fact) whereas others already exist. I have > ported claws-mail to Maemo on 1 week. Nokia has developers more and > better than me. It would have ported it easily. But I do not know all, > there are perhaps other reasons. osso-email is currently based on a (heavily) modified Sylpheed, but with broken requirements like enforcing wrong-styled quoting. Modest is a from-scratch email client based on TinyMail and Camel (the underpinnings of Evolution). I haven't yet looked at Modest, but from the screenshots it looks very similar to osso-email. Hopefully, however, the broken UI requirements have been revised. I think the problem here (from comments on maemo-developers) is that the maxim "don't let developers set requirements or design UIs" is only true for software the developers themselves don't use. *Everyone* uses email, and it's amazing that good programs can be modified so badly with poor design decisions. Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:andrew at bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/
