* find a place for the background drawing
* RootWidget which places itself and the root Desktop on the desktop[1]
* paint a temporary background just so we can see how that looks; the test pattern kind of sucked ;)
* make the clock test widget use svg elements, though we don't have an appropriate svg for it yet

[1] if i was getting points for using the words 'root' and 'desktop' i'd be winning right now. something tells me i may want to have a more diverse vocabulary for these items