pyramba - is a clone of karamba written in Python using PyKDE
It makes your desktop interactive by showing system status information:
CPU Usage,MP3 playing,Free Memory Amount
Since there are no programs to create a theme/style for blackbox, icewm, kde,... I wrote one. Currently, it only works for IceWM themes and it's far from done yet. It works, but you still need to do a lot of stuff yourself.