Ah! I was afraid that you meant that...unfortunately, as mentioned earlier in this thread (or ones also discussing the limitations of the 'HildonDesktop' applet technique), many of the 'typical' PyGTK buttons (including ones that would probably enable the use of 'text' editing) don't appear to work (i.e. the desktop crashes). This is what prevented me -- for the longest time -- from having any 'interactivity' at all (buttons, etc). It was only when it dawned on me to use my own clumsy 'virtual' buttons that I was able to introduce that ability. Specially for setting the lat/long, another feeble alternative is to use the new feature in the 'earth' mode (sunclock) to set a new location by 'clicking'. However, this is not permanent -- but it quickly enables re-setting to any other world location.

On the other hand, I have *not* investigated what other developers have managed to accomplish re: interactive GUI features on their desktop applets -- especially not the Python-based ones, so perhaps there are (now) ways of doing stuff like this that I am not aware of