iirc, gtk, and by extention, pygtk, will be turned over to community, kinda like how Qt is on current platform.

as for how easy it is to go from pyGTK to pyQt, no clue...

Heh, i was wondering a bit why the gps way of getting my location was giving me a slightly different daily solar track then when i did it by hand, but now i see that i got my longitude and latitude reversed.

anyways, now that the ini is in a much more accessible place, and one have the ability to write to it using the menu, i guess there is no biggie to have a configuration window.

only "bug" then is that using the on-applet buttons to change modes seems to not be reflected in the menus. so that turning text on or off using the buttons will not alter the state of the checkmark next to the text flag in the menu.