[maemo-developers] which toolkit/framework is best for Game UI

[From: George Farris]

On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 13:53 +0100, Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> we try to create a UI for a game. The game itself isn't on the display,
> but we want to visualize earned points, positions (like in a race) etc
> including simple animations on the display.
> 
> Can we still use Gtk or Qt? What's about cairo or pygame? 
> 
> - Gtk seems somehow unflexible (more for good classical UI)
> - Qt: PyQt not available, PySide status unclear
> - PyGame: seems flexible, but maybe not comfortable, or?
> - Cairo: looks interesting, but can we build a complete UI with it?
> 
> (Ah, yes, we would prefer Python, but this is not mandatory)
> 
> At the moment we face the problem, that we want put a picture in the
> background and use buttons in the foreground (like in the Mauku-UI). But
> also we want do some animations..
> 
> Grateful for any hints...

Maybe have a look at Clutter.  http://www.clutter-project.org/