Scroll Bar Issues with Steam

[animal_PLANET]

Since last update when I select the scroll bar now, it will highlight but when I go to drag it up and down the page, it minimizes and moves the whole steam window.

It Happens randomly and very annoying. I have to resize the window or go back to full screen. Resolution is 1440p.

The scroll bar is also too thin and you barely have any room to select it. This needs to be adjusted better.

This is with the client itself. Nothing to do with games or the in game overlay. There is also no way you should be able to move the whole window either by touching the side/s of a window. The top part of the screen was always the area where this was enabled. Not the sides of the window. To prevent such an issue.

[Carlos100]

What are you talking about?..a game or steam client

[animal_PLANET]

Originally posted by Carlos100:

What are you talking about?..a game or steam client

If it was a game I would of posted in that game's forum. I also already stated it moves the steam window.

Anyway, I revised the OP to better clarify.

[Walach]

I also dislike the new standard of using the thinner scrollbar.
And it will probably stay as such for a very long time.
Target Size: https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understanding/target-size.html


In short, blame it on mobile phones and their limited screen width.

[animal_PLANET]

Originally posted by Walach:

I also dislike the new standard of using the thinner scrollbar.
And it will probably stay as such for a very long time.
Target Size: https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understanding/target-size.html


In short, blame it on mobile phones and their limited screen width.

I blame it on Valve than for not separating the two platforms. If in fact that is what is happening. Its def conflicting.

[RasaNova]

I just posted this same thing on the general Steam discussion forum, then found this after searching for more info. Should have checked here first! But yeah, I've been noticing the same thing, it's really annoying.

I was thinking it's because Steam is no longer truely full screen, but then somebody mentioned that it never was outside of big picture mode... But either way I never used to have this issue.

[animal_PLANET]

Yea, seems like its happening more often now. Which is really getting annoying.

Why on earth do you make a window where selecting either side of the screen causes this behavior????

I should not at any point be able to move Steam's window position just by clicking either the left or right sides of the window.

[DrunkDriver10]

This ♥♥♥♥ is driving me up a wall. It's so hard to use the scrollbar without resizing Steam now. I don't know why it's even allowing the edges to be dragged when the app is fullscreened. This doesn't happen in literally any other app I've ever used.

[animal_PLANET]

You know, this issue is less persistent at 1080p. When I bring my desktop over to my TV. The issue doesnt really happen. Nor does selecting either side of steam's window makes it move. But sure enough I can replicate this issue all the time on my 1440p monitor.

So maybe it has something to do with higher resolutions?

[dredizzle]

Yes this is happening to me as well! I thought I was imagining it and couldn't understand why it just started happening. Annoying as ♥♥♥♥

[ETHER]

This pisses me off, I deadass have to ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ look at the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥♥♥ scrollbar to scroll, not once in my ♥♥♥♥♥♥ life I had to look at the scroll bar to scroll.

[leaf16nut]

Incredibly annoying!! I used to just scroll my mouse to the far side of the screen and drag up, the whole right hand side was scroll bar - now it grabs Steam and resizes it, and at 1080p the scroll bar is only like 9 pixels wide...

[animal_PLANET]

I mean, look at the difference between Steam and Firefox. Its ridiculous. At least FF never resizes or moves on its own.

I know its also the exact same size as in Chrome. Which Steam is based off of, but its so badly done. At least in chrome selecting the scroll bar doesnt resize the window or move it around. So why cant steam follow this behavior?

Also note that the scroll bar for Steam is thin and never actually goes all the way to the right of window like it does for FF. Which makes it even worse. Chrome doesnt either but at least selecting the far right of screen still latches on to the scroll bar unlike Steam. If you select past right side of scroll bar in Steam, your window either resizes, moves, or both. Terrible.

https://imgur.com/Vj7gFyp

[Zebrudo]

I am having the same issue. Window is CONSTANTLY moving and messes up the whole screen. It has become very annoying to navigate on Steam.

[Mckenzie Rain Evergarden]

This needs to be addressed, I went out of my way to find a way to complain about it, i can barely get through a workshop page without overclicking and dragging my window... it's not that hard to adjust UI scaling and it should be part of the set up anyways. it's not very accessible.

[ETHER]

So i bought a whole gaming pc to have a mouse to successfully avoid this issue, they're just laptopphobic