Am I reading right that you are considering a script that sets up your desktop for a character?
There are lots of gump set up snippets involved in various scripts out there to place your paper doll, bags, status and status bar. Placing your spell icons is one that I have not seen, but that should not be impossible. I should think that a modified version of a craft gump manipulator might allow a script to go through a spellbook and place spell icons.
A potential issue I see is that there are so many spells and templates that it might not be possible to write a script that did a setup that was universally usefull. It might be something you could put together, and then users could modify to create their own custom desktop template, and then re-create it accross all of their characters. I think it would not be a trivial script project because of all of the spell alternatives involved. If you started with the rest of it you would learn a lot about screen setup at the very least.
An idea I see within your idea as being a potentially very powerful script would be one that pulled a spell icon(s) and placed it in a specific location(s). If you created a sub that would allow the user to specify five or six spells by selecting them from drop downs to be placed in a set of locations (like a cluster in the far lower left), this is something that a lot of scripts could incorporate as a sub.
You are not off the grid though, there are a couple of directions you could go with your idea.
Hope this is helpful,
-P
