Hello there!

I glad to know that we have new app launcher, because Mitrandir was too busy to do it.
In my opinion (I'm a guy who made Mitrandir do this task swither and I draw the frames, etc) the launcher better to place in Telescope, not in statusbar. It will free space for one applet and it will be more similar to maemo5.
Good luck and, I hope, my theme, Mitrandir's Telescope and your launcher will be one application and it will be the best of Diablo apps! xD
And then, of course, we will seize the World.