[maemo-developers] Write once, run on WinXP, Ubuntu, Maemo; which graphical toolkit?

Tue Dec 16 10:12:03 EET 2008

On Dienstag 16 Dezember 2008, tz wrote:
> You also seem to have requirments for the development environment.
>
> But to just run, Python with Gtk+ is the only set I know which I can
> find for all three easily.  WxWidgets I think is also under Python.
>

With GNUmed (wiki.gnumed.de) we face the same situation. We are python based 
and back in the days there was no QT for Windows under the GPL let a lone 
Meamo, So we went for wxpython.

This was back then the only option to run on Windows XP/GNU Linux/MacOSX. This 
has been successful for years now.

Them Maemo came along. There is an early port of wxpython/wxwidgets to Maemo 
but it is not a drop in replacement.

We do not consider rewriting in python/QT but for a new project that might be 
the way to go.

Depending on your code it might however be of value to consider totally 
different GUI for full boxes and tablet-like hardware.

-- 
Sebastian Hilbert 
Leipzig / Germany
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