+Frank B. Subscriber² Posted April 20, 2010 Subscriber² Share Posted April 20, 2010 Steam Client UI Update to Release on Monday After two months in beta and over twenty updates, the Steam Client UI Update is slated to release to all Steam users this coming Monday, April 26th. We'd like to extend our thanks to all of you who've taken part in improving Steam by participating in the 2010 Steam UI Update beta. You've put the beta through its paces and provided great ideas and feedback. The beta has been a huge success. The number of you who participated exceeded all our expectations, and so far you've created 25 thousand posts to the beta user forums. As a result of your participation, the Steam team has had the feedback required to make the new Steam client more reliable and useful than ever. For those of you who've yet to join the beta, it's not too late! By participating now, you'll be updating your system to include our most recent developments. You'll also minimize the amount of content required to download later, once the released version becomes available. And last but not least, you'll be experiencing the future of Steam now, including dozens of new features, bug fixes and general improvements. Regardless of whether you've chosen to opt into the beta, keep your eye out for the Steam client update on Monday, April 26th, when a brand new Steam is headed your way. Source: Steam News I can has Steam for OS X on the same date plz? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svnO.o Posted April 20, 2010 Share Posted April 20, 2010 Nice. Been using the beta client for awhile now. It's much better than the old one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoTrunks Posted April 20, 2010 Share Posted April 20, 2010 I can has Steam for OS X on the same date plz? Looking forward to that as well. Maybe on the same day? One can hope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
protocol7 Posted April 20, 2010 Share Posted April 20, 2010 The beta has been working fine for me here. Looking forward to the mac client as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoneyardBrew Member Posted April 20, 2010 Member Share Posted April 20, 2010 Still not a fan of the UI very much. The features and layout are really nice for the most part, but they didn't take much into account as far as user feedback in concerned on the actual appearance of the client. Still no tabbed chat windows either and other features like that. Seems like they didn't want to actual pour much more work into it than they already did in the first place. I'm using this theme right now and it's the only reason the beta is actually usable appearance wise. trag3dy 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jelli Posted April 20, 2010 Share Posted April 20, 2010 Wonder if there will be a week of specials to celebrate the release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yusuf M. Veteran Posted April 21, 2010 Veteran Share Posted April 21, 2010 I loved the UI during the brief time I used it. Unfortunately, I had to switch back to the old UI because of a certain bug that deletes your games. I'm very much looking forward to the update. Thanks for the heads up! (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nagisan Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 Still not a fan of the UI very much. The features and layout are really nice for the most part, but they didn't take much into account as far as user feedback in concerned on the actual appearance of the client. Still no tabbed chat windows either and other features like that. Seems like they didn't want to actual pour much more work into it than they already did in the first place. I'm using this theme right now and it's the only reason the beta is actually usable appearance wise. I love the new UI compared to the old one, but I must say, that theme you linked to looks even better. I loved the UI during the brief time I used it. Unfortunately, I had to switch back to the old UI because of a certain bug that deletes your games. I'm very much looking forward to the update. Thanks for the heads up! (Y) I thought that only affected MW2 and a few other games? Maybe it was Valves way of telling you to stop playing said games and play more Valve-based games. :p They fixed those issues awhile ago though. Also, as for the new UI itself, one of the largest changes is the web browser. They went from using the IE engine which would only work on Windows for obvious reasons, to using the WebKit engine which will work on just about any OS. So, you could view the new UI as them getting close to the release of the Mac client if they do not release it at the same time as the new UI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
protocol7 Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 The only (minor) annoyance I have is that it's still creating a "dumps" folder beside the steam folder rather than inside it. Hoping they'll have this fixed in the final. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nagisan Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 The only (minor) annoyance I have is that it's still creating a "dumps" folder beside the steam folder rather than inside it. Hoping they'll have this fixed in the final. What do you mean by this? The only folder I see related to Steam in my program files is the Steam folder itself. But, I am running W7, so its possible Steam is not creating the folder you speak of because it doesn't have proper access to do so... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoXY Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 OMG. Is the OSX version coming? Please please please. I need to play me some TF2. Haven't touched that thing in a good year and a half! AHHH!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xerxes Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 Nice, been testing the beta on my laptop for a while and it's definitely quite good :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazzyyfool Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 Steam for Mac UI. http://cl.ly/QFT and video of Steam in action. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKPxl5qdYhU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
protocol7 Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 What do you mean by this? The only folder I see related to Steam in my program files is the Steam folder itself. But, I am running W7, so its possible Steam is not creating the folder you speak of because it doesn't have proper access to do so... It was a known bug but they fixed it with an update last night just after I posted this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nagisan Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 It was a known bug but they fixed it with an update last night just after I posted this. Odd, I have never seen this folder, but I have Steam installed in Program Files (x86), where it wouldn't have access to create the folder even if it wanted to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoTrunks Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 To anyone that hasn't seen it yet, this is the new version of the steam store: http://store.steampowered.com/?v5=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahmz Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 @Mephistopheles: May I kindly request that you stop using serif fonts whilst posting articles, it makes it hard to read. TIA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
protocol7 Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 Odd, I have never seen this folder, but I have Steam installed in Program Files (x86), where it wouldn't have access to create the folder even if it wanted to. Yeah that could be it. My steam folder is on another partition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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