In the same vein, perhaps work could be undertaken to make Modest use something that is not Tinymail. UI-wise, Modest is sound; it was "the" app for GTK+ developers to look at to see how a program should be Hildonized. However, you only need to read the many stories 'round here to see where it fails (slowness, etc.).

MohammadAG's Qt Media Player does support MAFW, nicolai added support for it. However, when using my N900 with the default media player, I'd notice slowdowns with huge playlists etc. Not to mention Grillo seems to replace it outside of Maemo (though, admittedly, I don't know how stable Grillo is)