I love how summerboard allows you to change everything from the wallpaper, to the dock and especially the icons! But what do you do if you want to put together icons you've collected, a mindblowing wallpaper and a kickass dock and there is NO theme available that puts all these for you?
The solution is to create your "own" summerboard theme!
This assumes you know how to "SSH into" your iphone using Cyberduck, WinSCP or your SSH tool of choice (I use WinSCP Portable woohoo!)
Step 1 Choose your favorite icons or create your own (remember that they have to be 60x60) They also have to be named exactly like the icon you want replaced e.g. iTunes; iPowerHour (mind the case as it wont change it unless it has exactly the name of the app's icon you're trying to replace)
Step 2 Save your icons in a folder named "icons" on your computer (remember where this is)
Step 3 Choose your favorite iPhone Wallpaper or create your own (I use GIMP to resize my fave walls to 320x480) and rename to "Wallpaper.png" (must be png as I've not tried using jpg for Summerboard themes)
Step 4 Choose your Favorite Dock and rename to "Dock.png"
Step 5 SSH into your iPhone and navigate to /var/mobile/Library/Summerboard/Themes/"name of the theme you want to mod"
Step 6 Copy your fave icons from your PC to the icons folder in /var/mobile/Library/Summerboard/Themes/"name of the theme you want to mod"
Step 7 Copy Wallpaper.png and Dock.png respectively from your PC to the /var/mobile/Library/Summerboard/Themes/"name of the theme you want to mod" directory
Step 8 While in WinSCP, for example, you could rename your modded themes' folder to something else
Step 9 Exit WinSCP and go to SMBPrefs on your iPhone and select the theme you just modded (dont distribute a theme thats not yours, which is precisely why I can't link to my personal modded themes as the icons are a compilation of the "Realize" style icons)
Enjoy your newly modded Summerboard Theme!
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