This is a bit icky. It would be neater if the Python bindings exposed hildon_gtk_widget_set_theme_size(), but not much. So, to fix the button theming if you've created your interface with GtkBuilder, it looks something like this:
# these aren't exported anywhere, copied from Maemo GTK+ HILDON_HEIGHT_FINGER = 70 HILDON_HEIGHT_THUMB = 105 # fix theming for widget in self.ui.get_objects(): if not isinstance(widget, gtk.Button): continue # hildon_gtk_widget_set_theme_size is not bound into Python if widget.get_name().startswith('largebutton'): widget.set_size_request(-1, HILDON_HEIGHT_THUMB) elif widget.get_name().startswith('kpbutton'): widget.set_size_request(HILDON_HEIGHT_THUMB, HILDON_HEIGHT_THUMB) widget.set_name('HildonButton-thumb')