I removed this post. I realised I was almost attempting to justify myself. I do not have to. I know what i have done in 50 mostly successful years in the arts, and proving it to faceless people is not a requirement. Moving along.

That is sad indeed, and sad to learn as well.

Minimalist themes are often the most beautiful and appealing, for example:
It works, images must be less than 1MB for the "Upload Attachment" function.

Continuum by Ross Fairbanks aka Z71:
Modified by me, including Start Menu, Moon Phase, Calendar, Disks, Battery, Xion Player, and Rainmeter skins (Woofer, Swap Usage, and Notes).

Metall for WindowBlinds by Ross Fairbanks aka Z71:
Converted for Winstep by myself, Modules with Xion Player and Rainmeter (Woofer, Swap Usage and Notes).

DarkTech by DaniloOC :
Arranged and added by me : Moon Phase, Calendar, Battery, Disks, Xion Player and Rainmeter (Woofer, Notes and Gallery).
Wallpaper "Sector 3 Photon Lapis" by Fernando Cruz.

Other themes:

Evolve: Original theme by Danillo, presented by Winstep Software Technologies/WebGizmos.
Added by me: Moon Phase, Calendar, Battery, and Disks.
Xion Player by BoXXi, slightly modified.

K-TEK 4D by Tiggz:
Added by me: Moon Phase, Calendar, Battery, Disks, and Xion Player.

Themes that are among my absolute favorites.

Thank you. Sincerely.

Picco14.

Five things I learned in life approaching septuagenarian years in art and life:

1. Nobody can speak for 8 billion people as to what they like, people will always surprise you and only a fool thinks they can speak for the majority.
2. Wipe your own ass/arse before you attempt to wipe someone else's. Like and think what you like and let others do the same. If what they think is wrong for you, it does not make them better or worse, it only makes them different.
3. Never assume you know what someone else feels or thinks, you live inside your own head, not inside theirs no matter what they say. If you want to know, then ask, because if you assume, it makes you a dumber buttmonkey than you think they are.
4. The cliche "one man's meat is another man's poison" is true in nearly everything. Intelligent people change their own minds, only sheep let someone else make up their mind for them. What is interesting for one person could be boring to another and vice-versa.
5. There is never one way to do anything. Always leave yourself open to possibilities or you stay in one space and place and will never see the world of possibility outside of that.

Indeed, they can be that too. More importantly, AFAIC, they're the most useful and appropriate in an environment of productivity as they tend to be non-distracting if well designed.

Thank you Picco14 for sharing your screenshots with us. I have missed them on the Stardock Recent Posts website. As always your creations are excellent.

Thank you BassdudeNZ for even more themes. Your creative abilities covering a wide variety of subjects is very impressive. Thank you for sharing them.




Well said.

Bonjour BassdudeNZ...
Déjà, je commence par la politesse, c'est un moindre mal...
C'est votre tour de travailler pour utiliser un traducteur...
Au fait, je m'essui le cul quand je viens de chier question de propreté et pas pour faire plaisir à d'autres.
Je n'ai jamais critiqué votre travail sur les thèmes que je trouve pour certains très bon et je dénote une bonne maitrise dans la pratique des logiciels 3D et d'excellents rendus dans certaines peaux ce qui est à votre honneur. Expérience que je n'ai pas.
Après mon retour faisait référence à votre commentaire avec votre thème "Minimalist" et non pas à votre travail général.
J'ai téléchargé votre thème et on voit bien que vous avez balancé de la merde en quelques minutes pour jeter l'opprobre sur les thèmes soit disant minimalistes.
Ok, on a compris, vous n'aimez pas les thèmes minimalistes, ceux qui font cela sont nuls et ne comprennent rien à l'art. C'est votre opinion et vous avez le droit de le penser, mais c'était en mon sens déplacé de le faire.
Vous n'arrêtez pas de parler de votre vie et carrière exemplaire dans l'art en général et d'avoir côtoyer des sommités, très bien tant mieux pour vous si ça vous fait le plus grand bien, personnellement, je m'en branle complètement et je vous pisse à la raie "ça m'arrive aussi d'être ordurier comme vous."
Je dénote chez vous de la frustration et de l'égocentrisme un poil narcissique qui frise la méchanceté, dès qu'on vous caresse, vous partez en vrille. Il semble que certains forums où vous passez, cela se finit toujours mal.
Arrêtez de prendre tout au premier degré, continuez à faire et présenter des thèmes, c'est le mieux que vous pourriez faire, à moins que vous n'ayez plus envie...
Toujours courtois à la fin, je ne change pas..!
Cordialement et avec tout mon respect.
Picco14

Hey! This is a respectable establishment. If you two damsels want to fight, please take it outside.

Both of you have my authorization to upload any variations of the Winstep themes if you guys ever feel like it, just add something like a "v2" or "v3" to the title.

Picco, any chance of you sending me the updates you did to the new modules in the Darktech, Evolve and K-TEK4D themes so I can ship the updated themes with the actual applications? Would really love that.

K-TEK4D was made by Tiggz (Matt), not commissioned by Winstep, but before he disappeared all those years ago he gave me authorization to include it with Winstep etc... at the time he was making a lot of the graphics for Winstep (not paid, just as a friend), including mockups for the new UI, etc... the WS and NX metal looking logos were actually made by him.

Polite start and finish acknowledged. But please, ladies, keep it that way or else take it outside.

Indeed! We don't really want any sh** flying around here. I really don't want to have to put on my moderator's hat!

No problem, the matter is closed for the damsel. It was just a reply to a message that was clearly meant for me, which is normal.
No hard feelings and with respect to BassdudeNZ...
Sincerely...

Excellent, and appreciated. Real nice.

Light-hearted recently UPDATED Wanda theme in Gallery.
Because Wanda being clicked on is mainly quotes and anecdotes, in several themes the fish did not seem appropriate. Because Wanda has been part of Winstep since the early days, I tried to create a humorous Goldfish theme where she could swim in one place or across the screen with other Goldfish.

I have additionally created a lot of generic Goldfish icons to go with it - documents, Pictures, MsWord/Excel/PPT, Computer, network, Library, Music, Video, Photoshop, Utilities, control Panel and a lot more as well as some lesser known ones.
Making more so will put in the icons section when ready

The image in the gallery is a vertically split image with a few sample icons superimposed over the wallpaper as examples underneath the main Theme shot.

Wow, everybody playing nicely now! Excellent, ladies, nice. Keep it like that please.