Christine have at the time I'm writing this a C written launcher. But Why?. Ok, this is Why: Its cooler to see christine in the process table than python christine.py. And when you want to kill christine you don't have to look into the python processes the PID of the python process running christine, just "killall christine" or something, those Deskbar Applet users will thank this
It works to me, and I will apreciate if you check it, mainly for the compiling issues in the makefiles. Code is available in the CVS.