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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
PostPosted: Tue Jan 13, 2026 1:57 am 
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This theme I have been working on for a very long time.

The drives are the only recent additions.
Anyone who knows the Middle Earth sagas knows just how much is in it. While it is impossible to cover everything, almost everything is in it from maps, to characters, to locations, to beasts from both The Hobbit and LoTR.

Some will hate it, some will love it. Me? I am content. Graphically, it is one of my better works.
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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
PostPosted: Tue Jan 13, 2026 5:13 am 
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BassdudeNZ wrote:
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Ok have a rhythm now. I am staying away from any gauges that are not obvious.. I have enough things I do to think outside of the square.
Changed direction in the disk in this one completely. This is about as much as i will put in any module.
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Just a general observation of something I noticed in the last few themes. I think this is probably a limitation of the mod itself - the multi histogram shows both read/write in the same colour, which seems utterly pointless as you can't tell at a glance which is which!


Spot on with the colors but the fault lies with me Nexter...

I haven't finished all of them. For the greater part this is the last step. I also am testing it with defragmentation for adjustments in where each graph line sits, so they can be seen separately. I am testing thinning/thickening simultaneously so I need to focus only on that and why I left until the very last. :)
It's me, not Jorge. As I believe I have mentioned, I do not mind showing my development stages in skinning.. nicely picked up though.

Ah, right. :) That explains it nicely, thanks @BassdudeNZ. A case of"mea culpa" then. ;)

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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
PostPosted: Tue Jan 13, 2026 10:51 am 
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Smoke and mirrors. User gets two choices.

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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
PostPosted: Tue Jan 13, 2026 12:08 pm 
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@NEXTER

here you go I did one theme only. It's also good to have a reference point. It took very little time surprisingly. Less than anticipated.
I have only done one. I'll do the rest at the end with those that have one (When all 50+ themes are done)

I started a defrag so both R&W run for visibility :) C drive is SSD so no defrag.
What I found interesting is the graph updates faster than the text if you look at drive E.
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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
PostPosted: Tue Jan 13, 2026 2:16 pm 
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next ..........and onto the next...
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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
PostPosted: Tue Jan 13, 2026 3:24 pm 
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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
PostPosted: Wed Jan 14, 2026 1:56 am 
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BassdudeNZ wrote:
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here you go I did one theme only. It's also good to have a reference point. It took very little time surprisingly. Less than anticipated.
I have only done one. I'll do the rest at the end with those that have one (When all 50+ themes are done)

I started a defrag so both R&W run for visibility :) C drive is SSD so no defrag.
What I found interesting is the graph updates faster than the text if you look at drive E.
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@BassdudeNZ - Yes, the two colours make them more distinguishable, although they appear very pale. I somehow feel the 'multi' option would work best with bar graphs... Really, with the histo, both read and write should be on the same 'zero' level and perfectly overlap but I guess that's just not the way this is meant to work here. Queer, never seen that like that where two or more histo data are presented.

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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
PostPosted: Wed Jan 14, 2026 1:57 am 
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OK finally...
In some things (not all) it takes me a little longer. I like to be able to do things knowing every possible alternative and where the boundaries are and what not to do.. where I got i right and wrong...then I can break the rules. So developing some things takes longer. The trick is on one bitmap file only and a rename. I guess I did not understand through translation what Jorge meant. I do now through messing it up and eventually, getting it right. I only have to shift the right up a little... WIP
This is a little overkill but in context with theme, it kinda works.

if it was possible to have 100 drives, the images remain as they look now and with 1.

Full Horizontal minus adjustment
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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
PostPosted: Wed Jan 14, 2026 2:17 am 
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That's it.

I will do all of them and then notify later on - also seeing this I need to redo the Nexus top and back, do not like it in context... anyway - many of you will be glad to be rid of my incessant posting :) LATER


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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
PostPosted: Wed Jan 14, 2026 10:34 am 
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all info except file system, model# and life remaining which is only readable on an nvme anyway.

Almost the whole enchilada.. this theme doesn't need the above and only the vertical has volume name.
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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
PostPosted: Thu Jan 15, 2026 2:52 am 
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rescales = zero glitches
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Graph is in real time, gauge and multi at base of gauge shows spikes.


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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
PostPosted: Thu Jan 15, 2026 4:13 am 
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Some of those drive icons are really, really nice.

If I may make a suggestion (and it is just a suggestion) one thing you could do is make a single zip file with all the different drive PNG images (giving each PNG file a different name based on the name of the theme you created them for, e.g. slime-drive.png, slime-diskRing.png, slime-diskRingFG.png) OR upload each theme's icons individually (per theme name) to the ICONS section of the Winstep Gallery.

This way users who only want the icons can download them without having to download the full theme as well.

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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
PostPosted: Thu Jan 15, 2026 11:25 am 
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winstep wrote:
Some of those drive icons are really, really nice.

If I may make a suggestion (and it is just a suggestion) one thing you could do is make a single zip file with all the different drive PNG images (giving each PNG file a different name based on the name of the theme you created them for, e.g. slime-drive.png, slime-diskRing.png, slime-diskRingFG.png) OR upload each theme's icons individually (per theme name) to the ICONS section of the Winstep Gallery.

This way users who only want the icons can download them without having to download the full theme as well.


Thank you.
I am MORE than happy to do that :)
Do you prefer me to put them into individual folders by the theme they come from or just all into one folder with the theme name they were based on with the icon names? eg. greenGoo disk, greenGooRing, GreenGooRingFG

Let me know, I am happy with whatever your preference is. It does of course mean that when I have finished the 50 themes, they may need to be split into two zip files.
Here's another... I have done more, I am trying to put up just the ones that are slightly different to others.
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Horizontal and Vertical with only one drive e.g. Laptop
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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
PostPosted: Thu Jan 15, 2026 11:35 am 
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I have enclosed a shot of the Aquarium drives that did not make it. Someone else may find use... it's not because I did not like them, they were in context but got lost in the theme or created a conflict.

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