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| Home Screen Layout - Application Icons

On this page you can change application or web clip icons (from now on I'll call them simply 'icons'.) The changes will be part of a WinterBoard theme, so as with anything else in a theme, they simply override any existing icons without changing the original icons within the applications themselves.
Work Area
The work area displays the current icons. Double-click to edit an icon or drag an icon from the lists below the work area (or from anywhere else.) Click in the status bar to select all icons on that page. Hold down the shift or option keys to change the selection one icon at a time or drag the mouse to select or deselect the icons you drag across. A click anywhere *but* an icon will clear the selection. If you double-click anywhere except on an icon, iFuntastic will make a snapshot of the icons on page 0 and save it to the wallpaper folder. This is useful for animating the icons on page 0 - see the Slideshow documentation for details. Hold down the option key when double-clicking to include the current wallpaper in the image.
Assigned Icons List
The left list below the work area is an alphabetical listing of the applications and web clips with additional information. Underneath the name is the bundle identifier that the phone OS uses to identify applications independent of the name, and that is also used by WinterBoard to associate an icon with an application. Underneath is the name of the icon file. This name is usually icon.png, but it does not have to be. If it's not, then it will be displayed in blue; WinterBoard may have problems changing these icons correctly - see 'Fix Application Icon Names...' below for more on that. Web clips don't have a bundle identifier, so the name of their .webclip folder is displayed instead. Their icon is always named icon.png, so that line shows the URL field of the web clip.
Double-click to edit an icon or drag it to another icon, into the work area or into the icon list on the right.
Icon List
iFuntastic collects icons like cats collect fleas; it may be overdoing it a bit in its fear that anything may get lost. No matter, the right list under the work area displays the contents of the 'AppIcons' folder in the iFuntastic Support folder. Double-click to edit an icon or drag it into the assigned icons list or the work area to assign it to an application or web clip.
Fix Application Icon Names
Some applications use unusual names for their icon file. WinterBoard may have problems with that. If you notice some icons not changing to your custom icon, then that is most likely the reason. Use the 'Fix' function to change them. Unfortunately these changes will get lost after a Sync in iTunes. By the way, web clip icons are themed by the name of the web clip. WinterBoard will not be able to tell web clips apart when they have the same names, so you cannot assign different icons to them.
Command and Options Menu
When you first load a theme, its icons (if any) are saved as the 'original' icons. You can load those at any time; you can also load icons from other themes or revert to the last saved icons; reverting to 'default' icons will load the icons that have been copied the first time the application icon list was built - these are therefore the actual icons the phone will display without any themes active (unless they have been changed directly within the application on the phone.) You can change the default icon with the 'Save Current Icon as Default Icon' function. This is especially useful for the calendar icon - change it to 'invisible'; since the phone displays the date on top of it, modifying the default icon usually does not look very good.
The revert, load and save functions operate on all icons by default, or on the current selection if there is one.
The transparency options affect the transparency of the entire icon layer: badges, labels and all. You can switch between 0% (invisible), 25%, 50%, 75% and 100% (no selection.) The icon labels can be made invisible separately with the 'Invisible Labels' option.
Image Editor Settings
No pain no gain - but how much pain can you take? Application icon themeing is cool, but editing each application's icon is tedious - and with about 50,000 applications available you can just about give up on maintaining a theme... this process screams for automation, and that is where Image Editor Settings shine: they are recipes that can be applied to your icons. Not only can you change all icons at once, you can change new icons to fit into your theme!
Select a setting from the 'Apply Settings' submenu and it will be applied to all icons (or the selection, if there is one.) A setting is applied to the default icon unless you hold down the option key. In that case, the setting is applied to the current icon, that is, you can apply multiple settings. (This is especially handy for the calendar icon - you may want to apply the 'Invisible' setting first, then add the setting of the other icons.) The five most recently used settings are displayed in the main menu for your convenience.
Settings can be created and edited in the Image Editor. You can keep the Image Editor open, make a change to a setting, save it, then apply it on the Home Screen page. This allows for easy experimentation.