Some people are requesting for a tinymail based E-mail client that would integrate well with the standard GNOME desktop.
There’s already a libtinymail-gnome-desktop which implements some of this desktop integration (like NetworkManager usage, Gecko HTML component and GnomeVFS support for when you want to save an attachment). Nevertheless I’d like to empathize that I don’t have a focus on developing an E-mail framework for the desktop.
However. That doesn’t mean that I’m not interested in contributions or E-mail clients on top of tinymail that would implement this. I have, however, been telling people that such an E-mail client is NOT a one person job. A team of people, in an agile development setting like Extreme Programming, would have to spend at least a few months time on it.
I very often have to repeat that I am not going to implement their new desktop E-mail client. People, please get realistic: it’s not doable if I’m the only person doing it. If you guys really want a new E-mail client, then start forming a team that will implement it. It’s as simple as it is: good code doesn’t grow biologically. Code doesn’t just happen. Code must be written by software developers. You cannot magically emerge an E-mail client from nothing, or by just talking about it. You have to implement it.
If you want to do it well, I really suggest that team would use the extreme programming development methods.