Old Steam Skin & Old Steam Icon!

[Sorez]

I personally despise everything about the new look. The Blue tints everywhere, the squarer design, and worst of all, the brighter grey chat window making the white text harder to read :/

Rant at page 17, in which I flipped out after the store update: http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/0/35221031536968917/#p17

Credits to Mugsworth and Max for creating and maintaining the skins!

Old UI with Smaller Text and Darker Background!

There are isntructions on how to increase text size in the link itself, for those who don't like the old original size!

Publicado originalmente por Mugsworth:

Preview[files.gamebanana.com]
Download[steam.gamebanana.com]

New Alternative 2013 Skin

This one uses Mugsworth's skin as a base, while also adding in changes. Try this one aswell and see which you prefer.

Publicado originalmente por Max:

Download[www.dropbox.com]

Replacing the New Steam Icon with the Old One!

I have not found a way to replace the tray icon, but I replaced the normal icon!

{ENLACE ELIMINADO}http://www.mediafire.com/download/bc3aonbj00y6w1o/Steam+Icon.ico

Simply right click the steam at the bottom, then right click the steam in the list itself, then change icon!

Replacing the web browser (Chrome/Firefox) version of steam!

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=327664042

NEW VERSION: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=442092873

My thoughts on all of this

First it started with them unnecessarily increasing the chat's font size without giving us a font option, having to resort to skinning it smaller.

Then they remove /me, instead of just making it optional, default turned off, if someone fell for scams that told them to turn it on, they deserve to lose their money.

Then they force all of this horrendous blue on us, making EVERYTHING harder to read, and painful on the eyes, steam itself looks WAY too flat now, which I personally despise, hence why I hate Windows 8/10. AND they changed the tray icon for steam, and now it doesn't change to show when you're downloading games, so unless you have a steam window open, you never know if you're downloading something because it doesn't change to notify you.

Then they changed the profile lights, and ingame text colours to be ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ neon which is NOT easy on the eyes, yet again!

They make these blue which are way too hard on the eyes to read, some text on some of the pages are horrendously harder to read thanks to it. Also don't forget the right click-steam tray menu (for friends, games, etc) which they made the text in it SMALLER for no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ reason!

And before you ask, I tried a whole week of using it, which ended up only giving me extreme eye-strain, and disgust with how horrible everything looks, I'm sorry, I tried.

I swear, I am so sick of Valve right now, making the worst of decisions. And the worst part is, not even skins can fix the web pages without extremely extensive webpage modding.

If it wasn't for steam skins, I would actually consider quitting steam. (Like any of you care, but just wanted to say that to prove my point)

[Conga Lyne]

Publicado originalmente por Jasperline:

Opt out of Beta for now.

how

[nxwor]

I've never been opt'd in for the Beta and steam has still updated mine...

[Quazimortal]

That's because this isn't beta, it was released for everyone today.

[OldPeasant]

Gamebanana has one of the iterations of the last skin, so you should be able to revert it back to the old style.

http://steam.gamebanana.com/guis/30175

[Conga Lyne]

Publicado originalmente por OldPeasant:

Gamebanana has one of the iterations of the last skin, so you should be able to revert it back to the old style.

http://steam.gamebanana.com/guis/30175

thanks

[Perilous]

Can I get the steam icon in Cornflower blue?

Absolutely. Efficiency is priority number 1. Because waste is a thief.

[Strekt]

Thank you very much, OP. I hate the new look of steam. Damn too blur Blue.

[hinti21]

Thank you!! :D

[Strekt]

Now, I seek how to have my task bar Icons back to the original logo... any tip ?

[Lament]

New task bar icon is awful, no idea why they feel the need to change something that isn't broke.

[B. Mills]

Black is back

[wistful_dread]

Props to OP. When a company fix something that wasn't broke, it's always good to see the community willing to do the smart thing an fix the fix.

[Skcarkden]

I really hope to see the old layout for everything back too... even in friend chat... i can't stand everything being all squared off.

It's like older style houses vs modern ♥♥♥♥.. one has many different features, and designs... and modern homes, even the "fancy/higher market" ones are all white cubes... it's just ugly and very impersonal to me.

[zero]

I am struggling against a severe neurological disease. Very sick, wheelchair, etc. I literally cannot ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ read/see the new interface because of the color and graphical changes. It just blurs together for me :(

With the massive amount of money valve makes, you would think they would have a client that doesnt ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ suck. The store design and layout is pathetic by current standards (♥♥♥♥ sorting options, no tabs, lists reset when you go back and forth, blah blah etc.) But hell, you would think we would at least get to choose what color/font the client interface is :(

I have never used a custom skin for steam before. Is it stable/runs properly etc? I recall reading before that there were sometimes problems with custom skins...then again, i cant read this interface for ♥♥♥♥ anyway...

[Erebus]

Publicado originalmente por zero:

I am struggling against a severe neurological disease. Very sick, wheelchair, etc. I literally cannot ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ read/see the new interface because of the color and graphical changes. It just blurs together for me :(

With the massive amount of money valve makes, you would think they would have a client that doesnt ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ suck. The store design and layout is pathetic by current standards (♥♥♥♥ sorting options, no tabs, lists reset when you go back and forth, blah blah etc.) But hell, you would think we would at least get to choose what color/font the client interface is :(

I have never used a custom skin for steam before. Is it stable/runs properly etc? I recall reading before that there were sometimes problems with custom skins...then again, i cant read this interface for ♥♥♥♥ anyway...

Yeah, I have some vision issues and this update is absolute hell for me as well.

To my knowledge the only time noticable issues come up for skins is when updates change things (breaking the skins). I just installed this skin a few hours ago, and haven't noticed any major issues (though be warned the chat windows background seems unable to fully go back to the old style).