libimobiledevice - Teaching Penguins to Talk to Fruit

It is distracting how your comment has framed discussion as, "this is ugly or unoptimized for the target audience because x." What I was hoping to read here is a discussion about how this library improves (or falls short of improving) upon attempts made to build open libraries to talk to iDevices in the past.

There is a place for aesthetic critique. I would rather see this project focus on the cool work they are clearly doing, and forget about the margins.

Example of how to read your home screen app layout data using Python.

  # Fix for subfolders in icon_state for iOS >= 4
  # line 48 : libimobiledevice\cython\sbservices.pxi
  # err = sbservices_get_icon_state(self._c_client, &c_node, "2")

  # export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib
  import imobiledevice
   
  idevice = imobiledevice.iDevice()
  ld = imobiledevice.LockdownClient(idevice,"sb")
  sbport = ld.start_service(imobiledevice.SpringboardServicesClient) 
  sbc = imobiledevice.SpringboardServicesClient(idevice, sbport)
  icon_state = sbc.icon_state

  # set icon_state from xml using ipython
  # download binary plist from http://iconstate.herokuapp.com/ with sbservice checked
  # convert to xml using plutil.pl from http://scw.us/iPhone/plutil/
  # new_xml = !cat IconState.text.plist
  # new_icon_state = plist.from_xml(new_xml.s)
  # sbc.icon_state = new_icon_state

it implements the way itunes communicates with idevices in an "open" fashion