Desktop Environment & Application Development

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 31.03.2008, at 16:16, Aswathy wrote:
>
> Hi
>
>  Is the desktop environment of OLPC - GNOME?

No.

> Is there any difference in the development of application done in  
> GNOME & in OLPC?

Yes.

> If so, how is it differed?

The "desktop" is Sugar. Read about it here:

	http://wiki.laptop.org/go/HIG

> Can we use Glade for developing the applications for OLPC?

I guess so.

> If used, which type of project is more suitable for the OLPC  
> platform - GNOME project / Gtk+ project?

Don't know, I would suspect Gtk+.

>   We have developed a window which displays some details of OLPC. We  
> developed it using gtk+ in C. The output we got in the Fedora  
> platform varies from the output that we got in OLPC. Why is it so?

Well, what information does it show?

>  Is there any other means for developing the applications for OLPC?

Yes, many. Some are listed here:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activity_Development_Alternatives

> Also is there any built-in compilers in OLPC to compile C programs?

No.

> Is sdcc built-in to all OLPCs?

No.

> Can we use sdcc to compile the gtk+ programs in C? Is it possible?

I don't know. Ask the sdcc developers.

- Bert -