Make the new steam UI look good

Evilsod · 28 Apr 2010 at 19:46

I don't get it, he claims his UI is easier to read because he's made them bolder, but in doing so he also made it small and closer together... which made it harder to read than it was in the first place...

mortals · 28 Apr 2010 at 19:54

I didn't mind the skin style of the new steam, just didn't like the fonts on the friends list so made a mini skin which changes the font to the one used in previous steam and also made certain fonts bold and larger

mortals said:
I've made a mini skin to fix the font type, size & colours.
Also included the original steam sound.

You can download the skin from here

Calneon said:
This is a skin for Steam somebody's made on the official forums, I've just installed it and the improvement over Valve's skin is staggering. All you need to do is copy a folder and select it in Steam settings.

If anything the 'enhanced' one in the screenshot has some really hard to read fonts on the ingame part

james.miller · 28 Apr 2010 at 19:56

wow. good job i was sitting down for that, that's a MASSIVE difference!

dmcg · 28 Apr 2010 at 20:07

its just darker lol

SB118 · 28 Apr 2010 at 20:09

Have they changed steam or something?

paradigm · 28 Apr 2010 at 20:13

SB118 said:
Have they changed steam or something?

I find your sig ironic

Where have you been for the last two months?

Arjun806 · 28 Apr 2010 at 20:13

Saw it yesterday but I think Valves default looks better

SB118 · 28 Apr 2010 at 20:15

paradigm said:
I find your sig ironic

Where have you been for the last two months?

Under a rock obviously!

Got shortcuts on my desktop for my game, don't play with the steam app itself (last thing i did was confirm my email addy!)

Calneon · 28 Apr 2010 at 21:07

I really like it, the fonts on the ingame friends list are a bit small but the rest makes up for it. It's a lot sharper and smarter IMO. I use steam a lot, for IM and all my game shortcuts, and I didn't really like all the gradients on the valve one.

AMG · 28 Apr 2010 at 22:19

whats wrong with valves or am I missing something

Deadbeat · 28 Apr 2010 at 22:32

AMG said:
whats wrong with valves or am I missing something

Can't you see the difference from the OP? Valve's original deal incites nausea and self-loathing, whereas this skin inspires joy and peace, and nigh-on triples your sperm count when perused for 20 minutes a day. Anyone could see that.

Destination · 28 Apr 2010 at 22:33

Can one make the last date played and other dates appear in UK date (DD/MM/YY) format, rather than BS US date (MM/DD/YY) format? Why they can't make use of local settings for such things bewilders me.
Also can you set steam to load on the games page, rather than the adverts page?

BloodyL · 28 Apr 2010 at 22:38

We have been able to set the games page as the default from the very first incarnation of Steam.
Steam - Settings - Interface - Favourite Window -> Library.

AMG · 28 Apr 2010 at 22:47

I cna see the difference what they added or redone, but I m not sure if I like it

Destination · 28 Apr 2010 at 23:18

BloodyL said:
We have been able to set the games page as the default from the very first incarnation of Steam.
Steam - Settings - Interface - Favourite Window -> Library.

excellent
and resetting dates so they make sence to non-americans?

Adrianr · 28 Apr 2010 at 23:22

Calneon said:
This is a skin for Steam somebody's made on the official forums, I've just installed it and the improvement over Valve's skin is staggering.

Highly recommend it.

And this is why folks, the Internet is useless for opinions.

HAz · 29 Apr 2010 at 01:32

rofl it looks worse you fool!

Calneon · 29 Apr 2010 at 01:46

Adrianr said:
And this is why folks, the Internet is useless for opinions.

I think you should look up what 'opinion' means

. Generally they differ.

sniffy · 29 Apr 2010 at 02:39

Well at least everyone who doesn't like it is bumping your thread

james.miller said:
wow. good job i was sitting down for that

hahahahahahaha