It’s no question that the Steam Interface is slightly outdated, But how would you change it for the better?
Make it less reliant on Chromium. There’s no good reason my library page should use nearly 1gb ram when it had nearly 0 footprint before moving it to Chromium.
And if they roll another chromium-based memory leak into the release? Fuck sake. I spent months only able to run Steam with Chromium disabled, something that’s no longer an option.
And it’s extremely glitchy on Wayland with an Nvidia GPU, even with hardware based accel disabled. I moved from Spotify to spotify-tui and from Discord to a dedicated FF instance with canary.discord.com opened by default. It has a smaller memory footprint, that’s just sad. And of course it works much better.
Steam is the last thing requiring electron/chromium.
They should focus on performance over UI changes. It takes 20s to open on my fast gaming laptop. That’s not far off from EGS and Windows itself. Meanwhile, the electron-based open source Heroic launcher takes 3s to open.
Bring back an option to disable built-in Chromium
Get a consistent style, that mf is more inconsistent than windows.
Consolidate some items, a lot of them are duplicated
I find it annoying when it suggests me games that are already on my Wishlist.
Make it support TOTP instead of its own weird 2FA implementation.
I wouldn’t change it, it’s not broken.
Basically everything in this video: https://youtu.be/cDY2p1CTkPo?si=PxNMLURX7MMx6dLG
Seriously it’s mad impressive
I actually watched this video a few days ago and it’s an amazing new look. Wish they would get hired by Value to design the whole system as it’s impressive.
Fix the hover drop downs (from library or store buttons at the top) to not appear over other apps.
I think this is a Linux only issue but when I’m not even tabbed into the steam launcher and accidentally move my mouse over one of those buttons at the top it shows the dropdown over my currently focused app :/
Haven’t seen this bug myself, so might be a Linux only issue.
This is what it looks like
Yeah seems to be a linux problem as I’ve never had that on Windows.
I mostly use small mode and I feel like it could use a touch up
Accessing chats in big picture mode seems worse than how it worked in old big picture mode. Usually if you are in big picture mode it is because you are using a controller, and with the new one it is hard to navigate chats with the controller so I end up using a mouse.
Also, would be nice to have an option to display the entire text of a comment in pop ups, since it often cuts off and I have to entire toggle to overlay , alt tab, or look at the terrible steam chat mobile app. Apps needs work for basic messaging with it not refreshing to show the most recent chat consistently so having to exit and reopen.
I wish ‘exclude by tags’ was more accessible, maybe if it prompted you to view that setting after you ‘not interested’ a few games that shared the same tags.
I honestly want to be able to use similar plugins or an equivalent from my steam deck. The two j can think of are the HLTB (how long to beat) and the protonDB badges. When I look at my library on desktop I can’t see if it’s deck compatible unless I’m just missing something.
@SamXavia
The interface is not outdated.
This not another protest.
Stop it…I’m not protesting for a better UI, I much rather Protest for Trans people’s rights.
I was just asking what people might want to update as I know if feels like an older program than most these days.