I've created a prototype now, and will try it out. I can imagine that some people (who already have many statusbar applets) might not appreciate yet another applet there, so maybe I'll do another package so that users can chose between the Desktop widget and the statusbar applet. I don't think both can be put into the same package, as the statusbar applet appears as soon as it is installed, so users who only want the Desktop widget have a problem there.