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| WinterBoard Themes - Overview

Overview Managing Themes Editing Themes Support

WinterBoard is a very cool theme switching application developed by the author of Cydia, Jay Freeman (aka saurik.) If you haven't done so, then install it with Cydia on your iPhone: Go to Cydia -> Sections -> System -> WinterBoard and install.
WinterBoard themes are folders with resources - graphics, sounds etc. - installed in /Library/Themes.
The WinterBoard application on the phone displays a list of installed themes. You can activate or deactivate a theme by tapping on it. When you exit WinterBoard, the SpringBoard is restarted and after that, resource requests by the phone are diverted to the corresponding resource in an active theme, if present.
Winterboard removes the need to actually change resources on the phone and instead simply substitutes them on the fly. This makes it fast and safe and definitely the superior way to go about theming the phone.
WinterBoard themes are additive - more than one can be active. The ones toward the top have a higher priority than the ones on the bottom. WinterBoard looks through all active themes for requested resources and returns the first ones it finds, so themes can override other themes.
There are two special themes used by iFuntastic:
iFuntastic - Temporary is used for trying out themes while you edit or create them.
iFuntastic - Graphinder is used for image search and can be activated/deactivated normally as needed.
You can manage themes in iFuntastic and you can very easily and powerfully create and edit your own themes.