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shmerl 2012-02-03 20:54
Open source e-mail clients for Mer derivatives and Harmattan
 
So far Nemo Mobile is lacking an e-mail client, and Harmattan's one is closed source. Are there open and functional e-mail clients around which can be ported for handsets or tablets?

You can post your ideas here if you want. I think it's an important and "basic" usability feature (of course the client is far from basic, but I mean that it's something that user will naturally expect to be present on any mature system).

I spoke with Romaxa, and he said it should be possible to use Thunderbird engine with IPC embedding, if some front end UI would be written for example in Qt. It looks like a decent project to start, but it'll require quite some work.

shmerl 2012-02-03 20:59
Re: Open source e-mail clients for Mer derivatives and Harmattan
 
Reposting some previous ideas here:

Quote:
Originally Posted by erendorn (Post 1158106)
Cannot we reuse modest? I hate it, but it's open source and kinda works
Quote:
Originally Posted by erendorn (Post 1160033)
what about qt messaging framework then? Or directly relying on Qt Mobility?
It seems fenix is only an interface to the Qt Mobility framework, so maybe building one in Qt/QML is not so hard?
Quote:
Originally Posted by qwazix (Post 1160041)
I remember the meego tablet ux having an email client, can't we just rework the ui of that?

jalyst 2012-02-04 08:54
Re: Open source e-mail clients for Mer derivatives and Harmattan
 
got the pop-corn ready :)

tigas 2012-02-04 23:37
Re: Open source e-mail clients for Mer derivatives and Harmattan
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by jalyst (Post 1160278)
got the pop-corn ready :)
Wait, what? What happened the last time? :p

jacktanner 2012-02-05 00:26
Re: Open source e-mail clients for Mer derivatives and Harmattan
 
There was once Trojita, but I'm not sure if it's being actively developed.

shmerl 2012-02-05 00:58
Re: Open source e-mail clients for Mer derivatives and Harmattan
 
Looks like Trojiata was desktop targeted, and will need a mobile UI if used, especially for handsets. And in that case you can already start with Thunderbird which is actively developed.


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