Theme approach

BassdudeNZ · **Joined:** Thu Sep 08, 2016 10:10 pm **Posts:** 475

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.
Cheers

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nexter · **Posted:** Tue Jan 13, 2026 5:13 am

BassdudeNZ wrote:

nexter wrote:

BassdudeNZ wrote:

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.

BassdudeNZ · **Joined:** Thu Sep 08, 2016 10:10 pm **Posts:** 475

Smoke and mirrors. User gets two choices.

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BassdudeNZ · **Joined:** Thu Sep 08, 2016 10:10 pm **Posts:** 475

@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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BassdudeNZ · **Joined:** Thu Sep 08, 2016 10:10 pm **Posts:** 475

next ..........and onto the next...

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BassdudeNZ · **Joined:** Thu Sep 08, 2016 10:10 pm **Posts:** 475

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nexter · **Posted:** Wed Jan 14, 2026 1:56 am

BassdudeNZ wrote:

@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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@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.

BassdudeNZ · **Joined:** Thu Sep 08, 2016 10:10 pm **Posts:** 475

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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single drive with adjustment

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Vertical alternative with less and larger drive icon

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BassdudeNZ · **Joined:** Thu Sep 08, 2016 10:10 pm **Posts:** 475

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

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