iPhone "SAVE STATE" possibility?

[paulosman]

This is a bit of an odd question.

As simply as I can put it, is there any way/possibilty of a way, of implementing a "SAVE STATE" with the iPhone's main settings/display.

What I'm thinking is related mainly to themes and plugins. With all these lovely iNav themes coming out that require all the webclips and very specific icon placement, theres a lot of work involved in setting them up right. Then you have things like Five Column Sprigboard, Five Icon Dock and Five|Rows which are brilliant but not always suitable for the theme your running and therefore need uninstalling/reinstalling depending on your current look.

Obviously it would be very useful to be able to have an app possibly that creates a "backup" (as it were) of the current state/setup you have, ie; all your icon and webclip placements.
This way you could switch between say an iNav theme and a standard theme without having to remove/add all your weblcips or constantly move icons around.

Personally I change my theme often-ish and sometimes I have to use Categories (as with iNav) to get the right look, but I assume this "save state" idea wouldn't be possible with Categories. I'm not sure.

Anyways I just thought I would see what everyone thought of the idea and if anyone had any idea on making this a possiblity? My only thought was to try and use Chronus but I'm not sure it would work. I will give it a try now and report back!

Oz

[JStraitiff]

you can edit the M68AP.plist in springboard.app then put it in your theme

when you want the layout to change just apply the theme and go to settings/general/reset/reset homescreen layout

[CaptainChaos]

This would be great. I would really love the Save State to work on my Roms too :P

[paulosman]

you can edit the M68AP.plist in springboard.app then put it in your theme

when you want the layout to change just apply the theme and go to settings/general/reset/reset homescreen layout

Thanks for the quick reply. This sounds like a great promising idea. I was just wondering if you could clarify something tho;

I've got the M68Ap.plist file from 'System/Library/CoreServices/Springboard.app and opened it in PLEdit but it seems to be the default iPhone factory layout. Is the layout I currently have (using iNav Final) stored anywhere?

I understand the general concept of what you suggested. I'm assuming by having a modified M68AP.plist file in with the theme it will override the default one when the theme is running in WinterBoard, hence applying a custom layout. Is that correct?

Oz