Hi linuxkid,

as you have seen scratchbox 1 or 2 is mostly a matter of taste. But right now I guess scratchbox 1 is the safer bet. Two reasons for that:

1) SB2 doesn't support yet the full dev environment, but just the minimal dev, why you could run into problems developing on it for Fremantle. Or you go with the Beta SDK, which is not a good option either.

2) SB1 is right now the most stable dev environment for Fremantle.

But this is just a snapshot of the situation right now, but as you need the stuff pretty fast, I would suggest you as well to take the SB1. The installation instructions and further descriptions of the SDK are part of the whole documentation.

GTK or Qt depends as well on your taste and further on your experience. As Nathan said, Qt is the path to go if you are thinking about cross platform and future maemo devices. If you are used to python, GTK is the better path, as the support for it is quite good. That there is not a lot maemo-specific documentation for Qt, I don't see so much as a problem. If you don't use too much your own stylesheets it adapts pretty nicely to the UI of Fremantle. And for the rest, like Nathan said, the documentation of Qt is really good. But you have to keep a bit the look and feel of the UI in mind while developing the application.

If you have more concrete questions keep on asking

Cheers Daniel