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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
PostPosted: Tue Nov 04, 2025 11:53 am 
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I will do/edit the same on all I do not have to change, remove the handful I do and adjust then put back later.

I believe this more than suffices for anyone wishing to download.

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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
PostPosted: Wed Nov 05, 2025 1:28 am 
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Have begun fixing the themes that need batteries minor alignments not much more ... yeas, I created or reimagined some modules.. still have a few left, will upload when done... will try and get them done fore Christmas...
I have decided I am going to make an 'all meter' theme. AFTER.
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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
PostPosted: Wed Nov 05, 2025 3:01 am 
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BassdudeNZ wrote:
Thanks Nexter there's a lot of really useful information there.
Picco14 also suggested that the odds on anyone paying attention to a separate set of files for each resolution might be quite small.

The more feedback from you all the more logical it seems to be that I only give a warning like "This will will work well on resolutions from..." and/or - "This will not work on resolutions above..."

Them nobody can say I did not tell them.

Couldn't be bothered to have Picco's post translated, and my own knowledge of French is like that of a Spanish cow. ;) I did learn it, but like so much, all forgotten long ago, just the odd phrase or word remaining. Don't know why he feels the need to post in French, his command of English is pretty good really.

His suggestion re: separate lists of files etc. are pretty much spot on - I reckon no-one bothers to look if even anything's there!

But yeah, you're right, warnings like "This will will work well on resolutions from..." and/or - "This will not work on resolutions above..." are probably your best option, and perhaps also put them in the description of the upload. And damn the barstewards if they don't read! :P

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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
PostPosted: Wed Nov 05, 2025 4:21 pm 
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FYI

here's the Winstep Technologies Office Theme running on Ultra Widescreen

I could be wrong but I think Jorge has already done an auto-scale.
I just installed on my widescreen computer and just now copied all the themes across and I do not have to rescale a single one. Amazing stuff.
Thank you Jorge - bows..



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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
PostPosted: Thu Nov 06, 2025 5:56 am 
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@BassdudeNZ - Well, without an update Jorge couldn't have changed anything yet. It's like he points out elsewhere, themes are meant to work at any res.

That said, things are looking pretty small to me, and I'd probably use a higher Windows DPI scaling were I to use a theme like that. More importantly perhaps, your Walls have become rather (not to say horribly!) distorted, especially noticeable in the Steampunk theme. But that's to be expected when you use a Wall that's 16:9 ratio. It's the same when on TV they 're-size' something that's 3x4 ration as 16:9 - ghastly effect, fattens people, distorts their faces esp. Hate that. Leave it 3x4 FFS! (Perdonnez moi mon Anglais, as the French put it. ;) )

Apart from some movies, on a large cinema screen, I've never liked widescreen myself, and for computing it's far too much horizontal and too little vertical screen estate for my liking. Took me long enough to get used to 16:9 screens. I tend to need lots of vertical screen estate, and as I can't fit a rotating monitor mount rotating it to vertical isn't an option and impossible with laptops anyway of course.

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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
PostPosted: Thu Nov 06, 2025 6:32 am 
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nexter wrote:
@BassdudeNZ - Well, without an update Jorge couldn't have changed anything yet. It's like he points out elsewhere, themes are meant to work at any res.

That said, things are looking pretty small to me, and I'd probably use a higher Windows DPI scaling were I to use a theme like that. More importantly perhaps, your Walls have become rather (not to say horribly!) distorted, especially noticeable in the Steampunk theme. But that's to be expected when you use a Wall that's 16:9 ratio. It's the same when on TV they 're-size' something that's 3x4 ration as 16:9 - ghastly effect, fattens people, distorts their faces esp. Hate that. Leave it 3x4 FFS! (Perdonnez moi mon Anglais, as the French put it. ;) )

Apart from some movies, on a large cinema screen, I've never liked widescreen myself, and for computing it's far too much horizontal and too little vertical screen estate for my liking. Took me long enough to get used to 16:9 screens. I tend to need lots of vertical screen estate, and as I can't fit a rotating monitor mount rotating it to vertical isn't an option and impossible with laptops anyway of course.


All I know is it works where it did not before. I am content. All my themes work that makes me content. The only thing that sucks is the wallpapers. As Jorge said, it's easy enough to adjust the DPI but that's no good for wallpapers created on 16:9.
I honestly did not know the DPI setting was there until I hunted for it in the advanced section because I simply never looked for it.

As for widescreen the widescreen is part of a recording studio. Winstep is installed on a new user I created with no loading on boot because the focus is obviously elsewhere. The 5100x1440 is needed because the recording takes up one side and the mixing desk the other, so it acts like 2x screens in one (same as 2x 2550x1440)which is perfect for me.


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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
PostPosted: Thu Nov 06, 2025 11:28 am 
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UPDATE

Some removals = everything works great with the adjustable DPI settings that in my own personal lack of awareness did not know - PLUS - I have now edited 16 themes with batteries with another 14 to go...
I have deleted some existing themes off the gallery and reuploading over the coming three weeks, along with newer ones e.g. Aurora, Jungle, Astrology etc etc etc...
Simply because the battery information and in some cases the graphics, have changed in either additions, size and/or info on many.

The split screen on D/L will have two distinctively different screenshots - 1920 and widescreen. I have left the ones that will work on all. I may change the font on the DaVinci menu to darker and if so, I'll only edit and replace.

REGARDS...


P.S. This should suffice as an example and reason why I took some off due to fixing.
Basically, Some got an upgrade, some just minor fixes.
The first image the battery and moon module and for every theme, as in the second image, I am upscaling all the self-made wallpapers to 4k - They work in all resolutions tested from 1920 up to 5100x1440. The menus and modules look smaller than they actually are on the widescreen screenshot. The monitor has a LOT of Real estate (It's basically 2x monitors in one if you configure it correctly). :D

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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
PostPosted: Thu Nov 06, 2025 7:46 pm 
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BassdudeNZ wrote:
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I really like this one. :D

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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
PostPosted: Thu Nov 06, 2025 11:41 pm 
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winstep wrote:
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I really like this one. :D

Thank you sir.
I am mid-editing all of the ones I took offline. I'll upload in the next couple of weeks and put them back. :D


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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
PostPosted: Fri Nov 07, 2025 1:54 am 
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BassdudeNZ wrote:
As for widescreen the widescreen is part of a recording studio. Winstep is installed on a new user I created with no loading on boot because the focus is obviously elsewhere. The 5100x1440 is needed because the recording takes up one side and the mixing desk the other, so it acts like 2x screens in one (same as 2x 2550x1440)which is perfect for me.

Yeah, that makes sense even to me in that context. :D

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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
PostPosted: Fri Nov 07, 2025 7:17 pm 
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This is what it is.

My children grew up playing this and Dad being a dad...
I attempted this poorly about 12? years ago...
I never liked not finishing something and while everyone's inbox will never be completely empty, this was not something that was in the too hard bin.

Plus I got to try it from a different angle. I couldn't resist the ridiculous with Wanda - well... a shark is an assassin fish :lol: :lol: :|
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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
PostPosted: Fri Nov 07, 2025 8:14 pm 
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Now all the decade+ older themes are finished. I cleaned a lot of this up. It's a little busy, but I still like it even after all of this time.
As for Political Correctness (P.C)... honestly, I could not care less. It's about what it represents, a hub of almost all things artistic.
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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
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BassdudeNZ wrote:
Now all the decade+ older themes are finished. I cleaned a lot of this up. It's a little busy, but I still like it even after all of this time.
As for Political Correctness (P.C)... honestly, I could not care less. It's about what it represents, a hub of almost all things artistic.
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Stuff the tyranny of PC-ism! (I'm not having any of it and will never use "Newspeak"!) Besides, I don't even see where it might possibly be relevant to the theme?

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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
PostPosted: Sat Nov 08, 2025 6:59 am 
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nexter wrote:
BassdudeNZ wrote:
Now all the decade+ older themes are finished. I cleaned a lot of this up. It's a little busy, but I still like it even after all of this time.
As for Political Correctness (P.C)... honestly, I could not care less. It's about what it represents, a hub of almost all things artistic.
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Stuff the tyranny of PC-ism! (I'm not having any of it and will never use "Newspeak"!) Besides, I don't even see where it might possibly be relevant to the theme?


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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
PostPosted: Sat Nov 08, 2025 9:52 pm 
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I believe for myself, that I should set a standard for myself that I can live up to. Whether that standard is lower or higher than someone else's is totally irrelevant. This is why with 'some' themes it was the reason I took them offline, because I had almost reached a consistency level of aesthetics. I did this theme initially as a speed test for myself as to how quickly I could create a theme. While I met most of my own criteria, quality wise and texture wise I felt it fell short in the wallpaper and in several of the surrounding textures. So I kept the same colors and principles and redid parts. This is the upgraded snapshot mid-fixing the battery. I can live with it now without an "If I only had of". The only issue I have with the battery is for whatever reason, in the minutes display it always shows N/A min even when I ran the battery down to 50%, so I now ram mid-removing on all of them.
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