Thread: Who's still around and interested in N800/N810?
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2011-09-14 , 09:43
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Originally Posted by lma View Post
Unfortunately last time I tried both tear and midori had some showstopper issues like lack of support for authentication. Are there any other free software options?
Has anybody tried latest Firefox build, it seems they have built package for diablo as well.
Perhaps it can be tuned to behave with less memory usage.
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=53650

Originally Posted by lma View Post
Upstream modest (and tinymail) is a dead end (last commit: June 2010), and in many ways more buggy than the Diablo one (just ask Fremantle users). The Harmattan replacement turned out to be both quite bad and closed source so porting it is out of the question. Claws-mail does still work fairly well though.
Thanks for pointing out upstream issues. Claws mail is a good one.

Originally Posted by lma View Post
What's wrong with the built-in telepathy stack?
Nothing so far, except for the pidgin is less integrated and therefore it is easier to provide a new package.

Originally Posted by lma View Post
Qt is huge, not really an option for Diablo devices unless you don't want to install much else or are willing to clone the rootfs to a card.
Clone of the rootfs is must in this case. I hope I will be able to resume toward this direction once I get the replacement screen.

In any case, I wanted to share my thoughts and see if there are people that are interested to work on upgrades. I am not suggesting stskeeps approach of porting everything ( failed mer and meego attempts). Instead I would like to suggest to focus on what we can upgrade/replace with relatively little effort.

Stuff like browser and chat client are most exposed to obsolesce issues. E-mail is not that critical.

By having upstream QT we would be able to port some newer applications that are not CPU/Memory intensive.
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