Day: July 25, 2006

Guys, remember I promised that I was not going to post new photos on my blog until I have one with tinymail running on the OLPC mobo?

Well, I will need my blog-space for posting pictures soon. So here’s a picture of tinymail running on the OLPC mobo!

I haven’t yet implemented a account store that doesn’t use GConf for reading the account configuration. Nor have I already added a patch for Camel in camel-lite-builder that removes Camels GnomeVFS dependency. Since a month or so, Camel depends on GnomeVFS, which at this moment pulls things like Bonobo and ORBit-2.

So .. I don’t think it’s a good idea not to patch it out of Camel before starting to use Camel on devices like the OLPC laptop. The OLPC image indeed doesn’t seem to come with libraries like GConf, Bonobo and ORBit-2. Other than that, it’s a very easy device to target. It’s no surprise that tinymail runs on it.

There’s of course a gnome-vfs-dbus. Very interesting of course. Might also be a solution for this. Well, the current hack for getting it to run was simply removing the two files from Camels Makefile.am.

I just uploaded the new tinymail.org website.

The small size of the web-design is indeed a hint that the website can also be used on mobile devices, who are a target of the tinymail framework.

Some of the website content might change as some people will probably give me advises. The purpose of this website is to be a view for also the commercial world. The idea is indeed to encourage commercial activities around the LGPL tinymail framework.

I’m also planning to make a website with a much more technical point of view. Being a website for a development framework, it will include developer documentation like the API reference, class diagrams, demos and guidelines.

I hope people understand that I only have two hands and that making such documentation takes time. I am, however, committed to do it. There’s already an API reference which will of course very soon be updated. Using the source code from the Subversion repository you can of course rebuild the API reference yourself.

Things like unit tests and documentation have a high priority and some of it is already available. I will probably not release unless both are perfect.

I will of course welcome people who want to help me creating or improving developer documentation, unit tests, design, implementation, a first release and the website.

I hope you will hear about Modest very soon. And yes, I was told they are designing the Modest user interface in such a way that it will be possible to use it on both a desktop and on a mobile device.