Yes, i'll modify the logic for selection of quotes to be more "fair". Thanks to aRTee for the link

Yes the colour based on battery level will be optional, so that you need chose it only if required.

Autostarting is possible, but i need to figure it out. nohup or & can be used to run the script silently now. I did not mention that because I want to see if the script throws up errors. I've found that the encoding of the script can sometimes throw up errors (esp with foreign languages).

Quote update time... Let me see if I can make this configurable easily without having the full script run in the memory always. (That is why I use a sh script to call the python script. Also, this way, we can modify the python script without killing the process)

Gconf is basically for settings. That is why users can modify it without root privileges.

The quote file I compiled from different sources like the old fortune database, other quote files etc. Hmmm maybe I should include a mention of the sources in the script...