This is my personal startup environment for nuke.

These are GUI enhancements that have no impact on rendering. ie. only for my local user

This repository should replace your **.nuke ** "dot nuke" folder in your OS specific location (usually your home folder).

The ultimate goal should always be to enable the user to be more effective by aspiring to adhere to the following:

• always empower users to define their workflow instead of defining it for them
• build flexible tools that enhance a user's workflow transparently (it should just work)
• assume custom dependencies will break so fail gracefully
• mission-critical 'business' logic should be separate from 'convenience' functions
• changing expected behavior/standards is an 'opt-in' paradigm
• convenience functions should be separate from mission critical logic and also 'opt-in'

Wherever possible, always keep the following principles in mind without obfuscating the logic of your code by overly-atomized-abstraction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_repeat_yourself

The ultimate motive here is to keep the original UI intact to provide a more fluid user experience instead of surprising changes to expected norms. As I mentioned above, enhancements should not impact the expected operation of the software without a user knowing and having the option to opt-in.

Easy if you know how. I personally clone it and update it when I need to.