I'm actually having a strange behaviour when using actman. I'm using modified-hildon-home and -desktop with 5 resp. 8 desktops activated and am using d-iivils fabulous theme customizer, of course running PR1.3.

Since some days (I guess since one specific update of one specific app, but I really don't have a clue what and when) I can't set background images for desktops 5+ anymore after having switched desktop activity. I used to set them by selecting an image series consisting of 9 entries. Having 5 desktops enabled it fits on them 5 and having 8 desktops enabled it also fits on all of them. But now when I switch activity and select that series the images are only set for desktops 1-4 and the rest gets some old cached images. It works again if I reinstall hildon-home and hildon-desktop but this only lasts until I switch activity again.

Now I'm in first place seeking for a solution on how to reenable old behaviour without having to always reinstall these packages. The other point I don't really get is where those images are cached. It's not in ~/.activities and the images in ~/backgrounds are exactly the ones displayed.

Regarding loss of widgets and re-enabling them: could you add an option to actman (gui) to do exactly that, e.g. to reload the current theme? I guess only few users will remember those shell commands when looking at an empty desktop again. Would be much easier to just open actman and tap on 'reload'. I also missed that option often and helped myself by doing a 'backup' of my most important activities (save as <current>-bkp) and when something breaks my widgets I switch to that backup and save that back to original name.