Steam UI Preview

[black.ops]

This looks like a 10 year old made it. I want the old steam (or my own custom one).

[JaLooNz]

Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 14:18:21 -0700

From: "Erik Johnson" <[email protected]>

To: <[email protected]>

Subject: [hlcoders] Steam UI Update

Reply-To: [email protected]

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The beta is available now for people to take a look at the update coming

to Steam that changes the look and feel to accommodate more games. If

your MOD is in the list, take a look at the text and screenshots, and

then e-mail me directly if you'd like to make any changes.

To run the beta, start Steam from a command prompt with a command line

like this:

steam -clientbeta betaui

The beta period is going to be fairly short, so if you find any

problems, head on over to the page on the VDC and add any bugs you find.

You can get to that page here:

http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/UIBugs

Steam Forum - UI Thread

[JaLooNz]

Edited October 7, 2005 by JaLooNz

[InternalStorm]

It looks great... I have been thinking they would need to upgrade to support more distributable games in the future and now they are doing it ;)

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[b0m8er]

Cool :p

For those folks that don't want to do to Steampowered forums:

to the launch properties for steam.exe

1. Right click on the steam icon

2. Click properties

3. Go to target and add " -clientbeta betaui" (w/o quotes)

[Toxicfume Veteran]

The UI seems more bloat-ish than before, but the interface seems more responsive and faster.

[Liquid]

The UI seems more bloat-ish than before, but the interface seems more responsive and faster.

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yup

[CactuzJak]

Personally I think it's pretty good, like it alot more than the old one

[Bawx]

Definetely feels more responsive. I like it so far.

[Smigit]

For those saying the UI is bloated, theres an alternative slim mode that wasnt shown above. Looks like this and is much better I think and pretty close to steam of old. (hit that button to the right of "help" to alternate)

[Marduk]

Still not very pretty, they've kept the fugly colour scheme, GOOD JOB steaming pile of...

[Toxicfume Veteran]

^Even at that mode, the whole huge bar and really big borders make the interface look very bloated.

And they don't have the bandwidth Monitor window, atleast not yet, I hope.

[Kev1n]

^Even at that mode, the whole huge bar and really big borders make the interface look very bloated.

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Exactly.

[Rudy]

why cant they adhere to the Windows UI guidelines.... :( i guess even MS doesnt follow them :(

[Smigit]

^Even at that mode, the whole huge bar and really big borders make the interface look very bloated.

And they don't have the bandwidth Monitor window, atleast not yet, I hope.

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I do agree with you there, the boardes app wide are too large.

I dont mind if the dont follow windows conventions, I just wish they had a nicer colour scheme. The apps supposed to support it (themes) but they never really used it besides the silver one (which I used but made the icons look like crap)

Edited October 7, 2005 by Smigit

[Nexus-]

did anyone notice this?

on the games window help>about

About Steam

Steam windows client

Built: Oct 5 2005, at 14:23:08

Steam API: v004

wow only 2 days old. for people that used to work at microsoft they sure do release beta builds faster than redmond. :laugh:

[jimbo11883]

WTF! I was hoping for something that looked nice... :argh:

[Inertia]

I like it.

[chavo]

Wow, you little momma's boys bitch about everything don't you.

Quit you're crying for God's sake.

[IceBrewedBeer]

Wish VaLve would make Steam appear like this.

[Shaun N.]

Yea that red x looks kool, I wish Steam looked like that!

How often do you even look at the steam app only now and again i think so its not too much of an issue if it was even pink!

Quit whining!

[elliot]

When I saw the title I hoped it would be one that looked like the Windows theme. :(