That's what I did.
]]>please can someone help us solve this i really wont this applet... .P
]]>I would have done it myself but I seem to be lacking the skills (to my defence I installed Arch for the first time yesterday). I have succesfully managed to get it to appear in the appletlist though, but it doesn't work. (Gnome says there's an error and asks me if I want to keep it or remove it as soons as I add it to the panel.)
EDIT: I could at least be nice enough to provide a link to its homepage...
http://gnomefiles.org/app.php?soft_id=617
From its description:
OnTV is a GNOME Applet for monitoring current and upcoming TV programs.
OnTV is a GNOME Applet written in Python using PyGTK, it uses XMLTV files to monitor current and upcoming TV programs.