[maemo-developers] language and library advice, please.

[From: Hendrik Boom]

On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:48:32 +0100, Martin Grimme wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 2008/11/11, Hendrik Boom <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com>:
>> It has been suggested that python would be an appropriate language,
>> because it's available both on the n800 and Debian, and is probably
>> fairly compatible between them.
> 
> I fully agree. It's very compatible between n800 and Debian.
> 
>> (a) What library(ies) should I be using for user-interfacing.  Are they
>> reasonably compatible between Debian and maemo?
> 
> Take GTK. It's the native toolkit library of maemo and the GNOME desktop
> (or XFCE) on Debian.

I keep hearing of things having to be 'Hildonized',  Is that related to 
GTK?

-- hendrik