Dirk-Jan of the Maemo team in Helsinki posted a new update on the status of “modest”, their attempt to create an E-mail client for small devices.
I’ll again translate the tinymail-related stuff from Dutch to English:
This week there was a lot management tasks to do. Therefore I had less time for modest, our experimental E-mail application. We did, however, had some progress. Following Philip is/has become interesting — we use his tinymail project –, the high frequency of changes demands constant refactoring at our side. Not a big problem — This is more or less how the/our daily progress goes:
HERE, you see, it takes all the running YOU can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that! — de “Red Queen” in “Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There”, Lewis Carrol, 1872.
But as said, this is good. We try to run as fast as possible, and we are getting somewhere. The screenshot shows a little bit of what we’ve done. This screenshot is, by the way, our throwaway prototype, which we use to build the rest of the application. The “real” GTK+-version will follow the HIG — so have no fear :-) –. Professionally is the Maemo-version of course even more interesting, but I definitely also want a good GTK+-version.
The screenshot isn’t using the MozEmbed-stuff Philip in his screenshot uses. Therefore is viewing spam also less interesting :-). Luckily is tinymail very flexible. For example if I want to start using GtkHTML, it’s very easy to add/replace that. I can simply create a TnyGtkHTMLStream class which implements the TnyStreamIface-interface. And done! Let’s do that!
Other than that I’ve been adding some UML class diagrams that illustrate the design of tinymail. Soon will the gtk-doc API documentation also be finished.