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PostPosted: Thu Dec 04, 2025 4:39 pm 
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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
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Not really my thang in my old age, cocktails - too damned pretentious - but hey, let's get Mozart, Brahms, and Liszt anyway! ;) :P Nice one Mr. Bassman, as long as one doesn't crowd it with *all* of the modules.

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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
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Very imaginative! :D

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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
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- but hey, let's get Mozart, Brahms, and Liszt anyway! ;) :P

For those not familiar with British English, the above is "rhiming slang" for "pissed", i.e., drunk. :lol:

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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
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winstep wrote:
Very imaginative! :D


The hardest thing in the Cocktails theme was the wallpaper. I tried as much as I could from limiting to only one cocktail per module, also removing all the stools, to creating empty shelves with no bottles to just a bare bar and nothing else - even only placeholders.

Has anyone ever been to any pub. club, bar or restaurant where there are no stools, no bottles of liquor, no windows, no lights, nothing bat an empty bar top???? So it did not matter how I attempted it, something got cluttered.
It actually works better and is closer to what I originally hoped for and is more sparse on Ultra widescreen, so that's a first. It's still not what I exactly intended, but que sera sera. When I get around to uploading, I will let anyone know, not that there will be anyone, that it works better on Ultra. Making a theme / creating just for ultra is not a thing for a long time to come if ever, so, when I have more time, I may revisit it.

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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
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@BassdudeNZ - Bear in mind, not everyone is going to be using all mods, and also they may move them all over the place. (Ditto for menus.) Personally, apart from when testing, I normally only use 3-max4 mods. That's Moon, UPS/Battery, and usually RAM. Everything else is basically either useless (e.g. Weather as out in the sticks, and of course the stupid fish) or anyway surplus to requirements. Although, I may add a drive mod if I can config it my way.

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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
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@Nexter - Yes I understand that and that is a sensible approach. That stated, when I design it, I allow for the people that fill their desktop. While I only use the Calendar, Clock, Moon and RAM (Battery on Laptop) because I have disabled most of the Windows defender/calendar and bloatware defaults in gpedit, registry or by script, everyone has their own preferences. The CPU is useful for many people too. In my DAW, it has its own CPU usage meter which is critical when doing a large mix. So while the CPU is useful for many it is extraneous for me because of the aforementioned.
However, if it looks like total convoluted crap to me when I design it, it can be frustrating, so I do my best to allow for people who do want 'everything all at once'.


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@Nexter - Yes I understand that and that is a sensible approach. That stated, when I design it, I allow for the people that fill their desktop. While I only use the Calendar, Clock, Moon and RAM (Battery on Laptop) because I have disabled most of the Windows defender/calendar and bloatware defaults in gpedit, registry or by script, everyone has their own preferences. The CPU is useful for many people too. In my DAW, it has its own CPU usage meter which is critical when doing a large mix. So while the CPU is useful for many it is extraneous for me because of the aforementioned.
However, if it looks like total convoluted crap to me when I design it, it can be frustrating, so I do my best to allow for people who do want 'everything all at once'.

Well, this is far from any kind of crap, convoluted or otherwise. In spite of my dislike of cocktails in my old age, I like this theme a lot. Well done. :D As Jorge so aptly summed it up - imaginative! :D Hick! :P

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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
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I was asked by a friend a question that may or may not have been asked elsewhere. This question being how come I have so many copies on multiple computers and if I received them for free.
I willingly paid for a network license even though I do a lot of themes that Jorge can do with as he wishes.
The support is great. It is worth every penny.

By the way, in case anyone seeing my themes wonders if all my desktops are as full as the pictures, no they are not. I have one computer which I use for recording which requires a lot of real estate, and I have it as spare as I can muster. The rest have many modules on them depending on whether they have a battery or not. I love the fact you can float Nexus, double-click the main icon and collapse it - best feature ever for an environment that needs to be mostly uncluttered.
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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
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BassdudeNZ wrote:
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I was asked by a friend a question that may or may not have been asked elsewhere. This question being how come I have so many copies on multiple computers and if I received them for free.
I willingly paid for a network license even though I do a lot of themes that Jorge can do with as he wishes.
The support is great. It is worth every penny.

By the way, in case anyone seeing my themes wonders if all my desktops are as full as the pictures, no they are not. I have one computer which I use for recording which requires a lot of real estate, and I have it as spare as I can muster. The rest have many modules on them depending on whether they have a battery or not. I love the fact you can float Nexus, double-click the main icon and collapse it - best feature ever for an environment that needs to be mostly uncluttered.
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@BassdudeNZ - I absolutely love that shot of the Aurora Australensis (I presume?) - beautifully defined. It doesn't appear to have been stretched to fit but rather that it was shot with an ultra-wide lens, something in the region of 12 or even 10mm? Is it your own shot by any chance? Anyway, looks great! :D

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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
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TRIVIA:

I was asked by a friend a question that may or may not have been asked elsewhere. This question being how come I have so many copies on multiple computers and if I received them for free.
I willingly paid for a network license even though I do a lot of themes that Jorge can do with as he wishes.
The support is great. It is worth every penny.

By the way, in case anyone seeing my themes wonders if all my desktops are as full as the pictures, no they are not. I have one computer which I use for recording which requires a lot of real estate, and I have it as spare as I can muster. The rest have many modules on them depending on whether they have a battery or not. I love the fact you can float Nexus, double-click the main icon and collapse it - best feature ever for an environment that needs to be mostly uncluttered.
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@BassdudeNZ - I absolutely love that shot of the Aurora Australensis (I presume?) - beautifully defined. It doesn't appear to have been stretched to fit but rather that it was shot with an ultra-wide lens, something in the region of 12 or even 10mm? Is it your own shot by any chance? Anyway, looks great! :D


Thank you.
No it was shot by a dear friend of mine who is a fabulous photographer who uses analog wherever he can, and develops his own film still. So that artform fortunately is not dead yet even though he has great digital cameras :)
I'd have to ask him because I am unsure whether that was taken on his Switzerland/Greenland trip or where? generally Australian and NZ aurora's more often than not tend to be reds and purples I think? I could be wrong and am happy to be. I'll mail him.


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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
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The photo was taken at Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon in Iceland.
I was only partially correct. Apparently, because the Southern hemisphere of the pacific is more temperate other than far south New Zealand, the Aurora's naturally lean more towards reds, yellows and purples but occasionally, will be blues and less often greens.


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@BassdudeNZ - I absolutely love that shot of the Aurora Australensis (I presume?) - beautifully defined. It doesn't appear to have been stretched to fit but rather that it was shot with an ultra-wide lens, something in the region of 12 or even 10mm? Is it your own shot by any chance? Anyway, looks great! :D


Thank you.
No it was shot by a dear friend of mine who is a fabulous photographer who uses analog wherever he can, and develops his own film still. So that artform fortunately is not dead yet even though he has great digital cameras :)
I'd have to ask him because I am unsure whether that was taken on his Switzerland/Greenland trip or where? generally Australian and NZ aurora's more often than not tend to be reds and purples I think? I could be wrong and am happy to be. I'll mail him.

I've still got some of my analogue gear myself, from 35mil up, but alas sheet film almost never gets used any more due to prohibitive costs. I hate digital with a passion, mainly because the quality and colour gradation are so crap even with the best digital cameras. A good analogue image on even 9/120 is equivalent to in the region of 100s-1000s of peta pixels, and even 35 mil won't be approached for a long while yet. I was given a top of the range full frame digital camera by a friend a couple of years ago plus some accessories (he was going for a different make), and I got myself adapters to use it with some of my old (manual) 35mil lenses and a few more recent manual lenses from China and Korea - amazing quality, and can be found very cheap too. Relatively rarely gets used though, and entirely in manual mode.. Hate the damn thing.

Yeah, makes sense re: southern auroras, different atmospheric elements from more near-polar/polar areas. We occasionally get to see auroras as far south as London, likewise predominantly reddish and purplish, very little green shades.

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The photo was taken at Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon in Iceland.
I was only partially correct. Apparently, because the Southern hemisphere of the pacific is more temperate other than far south New Zealand, the Aurora's naturally lean more towards reds, yellows and purples but occasionally, will be blues and less often greens.

Ah yes, lovely Iceland. One of my favourite places outside the UK. Fantastic scenery, great people, great culture, great language - the only Germanic language apart from English to have preserved the dental fricatives - but bloody cold, and the food's not great. (Too much fish!) :)

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You're a talented man. If you delve as deeply in photography as it sounds, you must be really great. I hope you post some of your photos someday.


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