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Hey Kroll, I had an idea earlier and I don't think it's something that has ever been discussed before.

I know it's possible, but what are your thoughts of having multiple desktops for the N8x0 series?

I was thinking of having a main desktop, and on that, have like 5 personal launcher icons that would completely change the overall desktop theme depending on my mood or what I am currently doing at the time.

For instance, I would have one theme just for games, another for my electronic books, maybe a news desktop with RSS reader, a weather applet, clock, calendar, etc., yet another one for all of my medical apps, a desktop just for PIM, and probably a final one used only for listening to music.

What are all of the configuration files that would be required to backup and restore all of the settings on the desktop? Also, what would be the best way of switching all of these values back and forth? Would symlinking them be the best?

Everything on the desktop that would be either saved or loaded for the complete desktop theme would be the following...

Icons in the Task Navigator or even all of the icons in general
Icons and layout for Personal Launcher
All applets including each of their sizes and positions on the screen
Desktop background image
Possibly the current font be used
Personal Menu and all of it's settings
Hopefully Xmms along with where on the screen it's located as well as if it has a graphical equalizer, playlist screen, etc. attached to it.

And anything else that you can think of.

Does this make any sense to you? I could put up a few pictures to help you better understand.

Cheers!