good work mikec.. Looks good and I think you will have freedom in rendering the svgs and the size control etc with Qt.. Qt on diablo would be too heavy, IMO and as such the applet with simple Python and cairo seems to work.. Only issue is the Python-rsvg bindings which I am hoping the INdT folks I talked to would help me get in to the repositories soon. With that the one click SVGClock install should work for the diablo..