Steam UI update

Geit · 28 Dec 2016

Steam UI update

So, that long downtime last night? - This is why: http://store.steampowered.com/uiupdate/

Looking epic, i'll be enrolling in the Beta tonight.

Major features:

Complete overhaul of Steam client UI design to improve discoverability of features and to better expose all the information related to games in your library

Complete overhaul of in-game overlay UI design to create a richer in-game experience exposing context sensitive information related to the game you are currently playing

New game details view, presenting a detailed view of all the information for a single game in your library

New grid view, presenting a graphical view of your game library

New news page in the store/client/overlay which aggregates from Valve related news sites, official community groups, and third-party gaming news feeds

New downloads view in the client, making it easier to track your progress downloading new games or game updates

New Steam store design, including more integrated community features, improved recommendations, and improved video and screenshots viewing (and much more!)

Store details:

New Steam store/community integration — see what your friends have been buying and playing as you browse the store

Improved store layout, genre navigation, and genre pages, including more robust navigation per category

Improved game detail pages, including quick link to demos, inline display of higher resolution game trailers, improved screenshot browser, and improved game recommendations

New game-specific video page, containing all of a game's trailers in one place, now in higher resolution Flash format

Improved discoverability of sales and discounts, including prominent shortcuts and consistent store-wide visual presentation for price cuts

New quick-info tooltips on store home page and genre pages which allow users to read about games before navigating to detail pages

New search filtering options- search for packs or DLC, easier to use filters for searching by price and metascore, and sort by release date

Client feature details:

View of your most recently achieved achievements and likely next achievements in the client game details view and in the in-game overlay

View of friends currently playing a game as well as all friends who sometimes play a game in the per-game details view

View of related game news in the client game details view and in the in-game overlay

Clock in the in-game overlay (!)

User customizable categories assignable per-game, by which the various game library views can now be filtered

Tracking of last played time for games to show in the client library views

Sort your games by last date played

Library list view displays larger graphic, and a new column displaying a game's Steam Cloud state

New invites section in the friends list UI allowing you to accept or decline invites directly without going to your community control panel

Cloud support for many non-machine specific local settings such as favorite servers

Implemented new DirectWrite based font rendering for the client and in-game overlay on Windows 7 or Vista with both SP2 and the "Platform Update" installed. This offers improved pairwise kerning for text layout as well as better anti-aliasing of text on supported platforms.

Display of total played time in the client game details view and the in-game overlay

Type to jump support in the games list, grid, and game details views

Better Steam cloud conflict resolution support, with the ability for users to choose how to resolve conflicts between machines

Improved forward/backward navigation in the client UI, acting across various different view types (e.g., games list, to community, back to games list)

New style and layout system for Steam's VGUI UI toolkit, enabling much more complicated flowing layouts. Skins will need major overhauls to be compatible with the new client, but will also have much more power and flexibility available to them via the new .style and .layout files used in the new VGUI code.

Backup/restore wizard

Community: all official game avatars in one place, linked from your edit profile page

New outer glow effect supported when rendering text in VGUI

Support for alpha blending of gradients and text in VGUI

Support for many new layout and placement commands in VGUI

Support for native drop shadow effect on primary Steam windows on Vista and Windows 7

Bug fixes:

Improved reliability of auto-login to store and community when used in the Steam client

Improved truncation of long text strings in many places

Fixed the various UI states and settings to persist across client restart more reliably

Fixed being unable to reliably delete previously added non-Steam shortcuts from your games list

Fixed forward/backwards navigation on Community tab getting stuck on redirects

Many small performance and memory usage improvements

Improved sorting consistency between views

Fixed hit areas on friend panel down-arrow affordances to make clicking on them more reliable

You can now remove a blocked friend without having to unblock the friend first

General improvements:

Now using a WebKit based rendering engine for the client and in-game overlay web browsing components (replacing Internet Explorer)

Improved speed of in-game overlay web browser

Improved search functionality on the Steam news page

Web pages which use confirm() or alert() calls in javascript no longer break the in-game overlay web browser

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Orion · 24 Feb 2010

Thats just disgustingly sexy, does explain why steam was being so funky last night.

Kash · 24 Feb 2010

It does look pretty damn awesome <3 Steam

RocketDog · 24 Feb 2010

<grouch>As long as it improves the UI lag/performance I've had for months then I'll be happy</grouch>

UPDATE: New UI fail on Wine

Reag · 24 Feb 2010

Now using a WebKit based rendering engine for the client and in-game overlay web browsing components (replacing Internet Explorer)
ABOUT, FUCKING, TIME.

FastJohn · 24 Feb 2010

it's pretty good.

i like the download page and the game list

Dark · 24 Feb 2010

Anyone getting testshell-error: like I was, here's the fix:

I had this problem for a while and it seems to be a conflict with Internet Explorer 8. To fix you need to open IE8 then go Internet Options->Connections->LAN Settings and UNcheck the automatically detect settings button. This worked for me using Win 7 Ultimate x64.
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Spykodemon · 24 Feb 2010

RocketDog said: ↑

<grouch>As long as it improves the UI lag/performance I've had for months then I'll be happy</grouch>

UPDATE: New UI fail on Wine
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Save the heartache and just use Windows, I learnt that the hard way.

RocketDog · 24 Feb 2010

Spykodemon said: ↑

Save the heartache and just use Windows, I learnt that the hard way.
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I do all my TF2/gaming in XP, but I run Steam in Wine so I can check out the servers and who's online before rebooting.

Longbow · 24 Feb 2010

I must say I damn well love it!

Dark · 24 Feb 2010

So far I like everything but the scroll speed, overspaced friends list, weird text selection (both in chat and webkit's faggotry) and fucked up cleartype in chat windows.

Cookiecaster · 24 Feb 2010

There is so much I would change, I don't like the fact you don't have to double click to open a chat window, I don't like the way you have to open the friends list, I don't like where the menus are and I don't like where the games are and how it doesn't show the update percentage, Nor do I like the ingame overlay, other than that I think its just about ok.
I'm sure everyone else has their own opinion on it. ;p

Dark · 24 Feb 2010

I love the new overlay - webkit makes it actually possible to browse with

Cookiecaster · 24 Feb 2010

Darkimmortal said: ↑

I love the new overlay - webkit makes it actually possible to browse with
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I hate how my achivs are in my face when I shift tab

RocketDog · 24 Feb 2010

My overlay seems a bit glitchy - after switching in and out during a game to chat to someone (or trying to launch the browser for the first time), it refuses to appear again and I have to restart the game to get it back. I used to get a similar thing with the old UI, but this seems repeatedly worse.

Geit · 24 Feb 2010

My text is super ugly, my only real complaint thus far. (turning the font weighting down helped, but it's still butt ugly)

Kash · 24 Feb 2010

RocketDog said: ↑

My overlay seems a bit glitchy - after switching in and out during a game to chat to someone (or trying to launch the browser for the first time), it refuses to appear again and I have to restart the game to get it back. I used to get a similar thing with the old UI, but this seems repeatedly worse.
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I have the exact same issue, and at one point my shift key refused to work again

Dark · 24 Feb 2010

Geitiegg said: ↑

My text is super ugly, my only real complaint thus far. (turning the font weighting down helped, but it's still butt ugly)
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Yeah it looks kind of like how Firefox (and possibly other browsers) go when text with a transparent background is put at a reduced opacity with cleartype on.

Example:

Badseed · 24 Feb 2010

its not working for me , my menus dont have a german translation so theres no text ... went back to old one
waiting for stable vers of this, i like the look n stugg though

Zana · 24 Feb 2010

I have not tried it, but if "better" visuals will mean a fucking general screw-up of the things and less performance on not-so-powerful PCs, i will just stick with the old UI...

I just want it to be optional, tough the new rendering engine is a must

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