Nothing iffy about this, but the gDesklets to adesklets
translation (or vice-versa), is no trivial task, because the
two programs have very different architectures and
requirements. You might want to dig through the
adesklets-devel mailing list archive (as well as the forum)
for a little background about this...
I am keeping a regular, friendly contact with Christian Meyer
and Martin Grimme, the co-maintainers of gDesklets, and we
are going to do something about this in the upcoming
months.
Also, would basics in python get you anywhere in making a
desklet? Or is there some special aDesklet API that needs
to be used (I'm sure there is).. but the documentation on
the site doesn't *really* explain *exactly* what needs to
be done, although I did just skim through it
Well, just go an read (not skim through) the "Programming
adesklets" chapter from the documentation. It has prooven to
be enough for most people. Documentation includes pointer to
the full API in appendix as well. Many people (
Darkliquid is a good example) with no former
Python experience had very nice desklets up and running
impressively quickly with about no direct assistance from me.