OK, I did some research, and it looks like this will have to be a C/C++ applet as the python desktop applet functionality isn't available yet. I can do C/C++, but I'm waaaaaaaaay out of practice, and I've never done C/C++ GTK. Is anyone from the community interested in stepping up to do a separate Kagu Desktop Applet project in C/C++?

The Kagu project will need to finish this ticket before the applet is capable of doing more than start/stop/play/pause/next/prev. But we can add that functionality to Kagu rather quickly if anyone is interested in writing the applet.

Any takers? Pretty please?