Repackaging would be great shin since, from my understanding, I still would need to install Cairo Clock first for the dependencies even though I wouldn't use that clock.

Now that you got your first python applet script behind you, do you think you'd be willing to make another one?

I was thinking perhaps of a date notification applet that would go right on the desktop.

It would display day, month, date and year in a customizable arrangement and one could choose their own font and color for it.

Well, unless that's already been done by someone else and I don't know about it or if you're already sick of coding.