this opennes is exactly what i miss about the basic and most important applications on the N900, thats why i created this thread:

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=38156

wihy is it that modest and microb can only be updated through firmware updates. This is quite annoying because now we are completely dependent on what nokia gives us and again those are the 2 most important applications the N900 has....

They have done a great job with the browser, i only think that they should look if they can get the cpu usage of the browser down but thats another story.

But modest is broken in many area's, simple things like the send button of new email thats completely on the wrong place (i have to scroll up again to send the email and what i do have on the screen like font settings/bold are completely irrelevant for me. i never use that)

But imap idle is also 1 of my top priorities, i was so used to that on my E90 with profimail..

Now if the community is just forking modest or making there own release of it (call it ComModest or what ever) so that we can update our mail client way more often and have way more speed in development of features and way more testing..

I dont care if we then loose the link between contacts (pressing there the email button) but that we then always have to do it from the email client itself.. Thats fine with me.

But really we need a much better email client on the N900 and i dont think waiting for Maemo 6 will be a good idea..

There are already some threads on the forums of Lonely Cat if they would port it to the N900:
http://www.lonelycatgames.eu/forum/viewforum.php?f=2

I also started one, so if there is really not much progress on modest in Maemo 5 will could all try to vote there to see if we can push LCG to release a version of ProfiMail for the N900..