I would like to switch desktop contents between each other. So to say, switch Desktops 1 & 2 (only the stored items on it), without manually moving widgets / shortcuts. Could i write a script, i.e. where is the position of icons etc. stored for each desktop?

I like this Idea. but I'm not skilled enough to programm something like that.

There is smth like Desktop Activity manager, that stores different sessions of the desktops(all of them), and then you can switch between sessions.

I found this:

http://forums.internettablettalk.com...144#post967144

So i have to investigate changing using gconf...

Package 'gconf-editor' was unfortunaely never updated for Fremantle, that would have been easier for analysis. And the one from debian.org has some dependencies that are not resolved, f.e. 'libgconf-2.4' instead of 2.6 as on PR1.3. Crap.

Isn't that what Desktop Switcher does?

Dunno, package description of 'Desktop Switcher' states:

"Desktop home plugin to switch between active destops/views." (sic)

I did it in an unclean, but my way:

1) exported settings:
gconftool-2 -R /apps/osso/hildon-desktop/applets > gconf-desktop-settings.sh
2) altered file so that it contained only the applets that were on desktops 1 and 4
3) exchanged "4" with "1" in 4 steps
3) altered file so that the format per line is correct:
gconftool-2 -s "/apps/osso/hildon-desktop/applets/TaskShortcut:albion.desktop/view" -t int "1"
executed the 'gconf-desktop-settings.sh' script, followed by 'killall hildon-desktop'.

Ok it was quite some effort, but at least it was quicker than manually moving the shortcuts. I'm pretty sure that with some meta-scripting / wildcards, you would be able to alter the settings under /applets/*/view with a simple command line.