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submitted 10 months ago by SamXavia@kbin.run to c/steam@lemmy.ml

It's no question that the Steam Interface is slightly outdated, But how would you change it for the better?

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[-] Ganbat@lemmyonline.com 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.

[-] 30p87@feddit.de 2 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] SuperSpruce@lemmy.ml 26 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Bring back an option to disable built-in Chromium

[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 14 points 10 months ago

Get a consistent style, that mf is more inconsistent than windows.

Consolidate some items, a lot of them are duplicated

[-] SamXavia@kbin.run 1 points 10 months ago

I find it annoying when it suggests me games that are already on my Wishlist.

[-] haywire7@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

If it's gonna use a load of memory let me theme it, colour schemes, skins based on games and let me switch off the community feeds that are full of shitty trying to be funny guides and crap.

Custom toast popups that pair with the game you are playing.

Reminders for the free stickers in the mobile app during events?

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 8 points 10 months ago

Make it support TOTP instead of its own weird 2FA implementation.

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Let it be managed by the window manager. It's fucking atrocious in Linux.

[-] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago

I wouldn't change it, it's not broken.

[-] Baines@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

seriously stop changing shit to change shit, fucking apple

[-] SamXavia@kbin.run 3 points 10 months ago

Apple hasn't changed shit in years, the only latest thing they've done is added the USB C what they should have done years ago.

[-] purple@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

To be honest the last big changes that came to mind that made me or other people change our workflow were:

Home button removal

WatchOS control center change

[-] Baines@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

hardware updates aren’t my issue , those done for actual tech updates are great

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 points 10 months ago

Google, Microsoft, all the big corpos. Design teams have to justify their existence. Change for the sake of change

[-] kryllic@programming.dev 4 points 10 months ago

Basically everything in this video: https://youtu.be/cDY2p1CTkPo?si=PxNMLURX7MMx6dLG

Seriously it's mad impressive

[-] lordnikon@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I agree with 100% of this but the only other thing I would add is the option to have trailers be played when clicking a game in my library. Since I have so many games from sales and what not that I need to be sold to play a game I already own or have a filter showing all purchased games in a grid that I can browse through. having to click on the game go to info and then going to view store page is a chore.

[-] SamXavia@kbin.run 2 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] NabeGewell@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Others already mentioned the more important ones, like less chromium and especiallt better performance jesus christ...

Id want a skin like the 'steam compact' one we had years ago, if you wont add skin support then pls add smaller UI as an option for low-res and Deck desktop users

[-] amzd@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago

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 :/

[-] SamXavia@kbin.run 1 points 10 months ago

Haven't seen this bug myself, so might be a Linux only issue.

[-] amzd@kbin.social 0 points 10 months ago

This is what it looks like

[-] SamXavia@kbin.run 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah seems to be a linux problem as I've never had that on Windows.

[-] ImaginaryFox@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.

[-] cianmor@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Just make it consistent. There are so many buttons, etc. with different styles, layouts, etc.

[-] SamXavia@kbin.run 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah it's one of the major downsides for new users as it will confuse those that are moving from console to PC.

[-] Blxter@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] papabobolious@feddit.nu 1 points 10 months ago

I mostly use small mode and I feel like it could use a touch up

[-] Aria@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 10 months ago

I'd remove the need to authenticate for accessing things that are already on your computer. Why does it have a "remember me" checkbox if it's not going to remember me...

[-] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] andrewz@stranger.social 0 points 10 months ago

@SamXavia
The interface is not outdated.
This not another protest.
Stop it....

[-] SamXavia@kbin.run 2 points 10 months ago

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.

this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2023
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