Option to send to tray og close completely on exit

[Cad]

Other clients like Blizzard, Uplay, Bethesda, Rockstar, Epic and even GOG has the optional feature to close on exit, instead of sending to system tray.

This option is considered amongst many to be a quite standard option! - And it should be!

To my knowledge, only Origin are aswell without mentioned option.

I have 8 game clients similar to Steam installed, besides that i have discord, skype, twitch, teamviewer, geforce experience, G-hub, steelseries engine, hue sync, blender, ccleaner, malwarebytes, avast, spotify, emclient, assistantcomputercontrol and several other applications that would like to run in the bagground, if i let them all, even though high-end, it would effekt the performance of my pc. - And even let me pay a little extra in electricity.

So my big wish: PLEASE make the close on exit instead of sending to system-tray an option!

[Nx Machina]

It already does this:

Top left of client > Steam > Exit - shuts down the client.

Are you doing this?

Top right of client > clicking on X which sends Steam to the tray and does not close.

GoG and Origin work the same way.

Blizzard is the same but the first time you click on X, you are given an option.

[Gwarsbane]

Is it so hard to right click on the tray icon and hit exit? Why do people need so many ways to shut down Steam, seriously there are already 2 very easy ways.

[Crewman]

I agree with the OP. It's crazy that Steam does follow normal conventions for Windows programs. "X" means exit. It doesn't mean minimize. It doesn't mean "keep running in background". Expecting people to exit the window and then also exit the app running in the background is a bad answer. It lowers my trust in any application that continues running in the background without my consent.

[jlac47]

I support this as well. While there are other ways to get Steam to exit it is perfectly reasonable to expect Steam to exit when the X button is pressed, as all well behaved applications can. It's not uncommon for applications to close to the tray be default, but Steam is the only one I've encountered that doesn't have the option to change this. When software lacks such common, basic functionality as being able to exit it with the X button I have to wonder if they're just cutting corners out of laziness or if they're deliberately making poorly behaved software.

[76561198407601200]

Originally posted by Gwarsbane:

Is it so hard to right click on the tray icon and hit exit? Why do people need so many ways to shut down Steam, seriously there are already 2 very easy ways.

You underestimate how lazy some can be and they should be glad they were born in a time of recent gaming and not the olden days of having to manually press a button in order to turn on/off a console. It is likely those same people also leave their pcs running due to it not power itself off through telepathy.

[Gwarsbane]

Originally posted by The Living Tribunal:

Originally posted by Gwarsbane:

Is it so hard to right click on the tray icon and hit exit? Why do people need so many ways to shut down Steam, seriously there are already 2 very easy ways.

You underestimate how lazy some can be and they should be glad they were born in a time of recent gaming and not the olden days of having to manually press a button in order to turn on/off a console. It is likely those same people also leave their pcs running due to it not power itself off through telepathy.

I remember a time when I had to type in "exit" to text based programs to actually exit stuff. They would not survive in a text based OS. Imagine if they were back in the days of punch cards for computers. lol

Ahhh those were the days, I miss DOS sometimes, though games/programs today look much better.

[B l u e b e r r y P o p t a r t]

Steam is already easy to shut down and I don't support even more laziness, plus it's a waste of time on somthing like this better spent on somthing that actually matters.

[Lum]

Agree with the OP here. Apps that minimise to tray on exit are a relic of the Windows XP era. The design standard for Windows 7-10 apps is that they minmise to their taskbar icon, where they can continue to present a right click menu, and can also display progress bars for downloads etc. Steam already does all these things, yet it still insists on minimising to tray.

This does cause problems because Steam is a massive bandwidth hog, it just takes one person in a household to forget to quit Steam via the menu and suddenly a game decides to update itself in the middle of the day and everyone who is trying to actually work gets thrown off their VPNs

Currently steam effectively has two minimise buttons, one to taskbar, one to try. This really doesn't make sense!

[B l u e b e r r y P o p t a r t]

Steam is not a bandwidth hog, try setting games to "only update when launched then" and probably a huge reason to not change this is due to the people that are playing a game and don't want to exit Steam and accidentally close the app by pressing the wrong button.

It takes 5 seconds to go to the tray, right click and exit......

[KeplersConjecture]

Originally posted by Lum:

This does cause problems because Steam is a massive bandwidth hog, it just takes one person in a household to forget to quit Steam via the menu and suddenly a game decides to update itself in the middle of the day and everyone who is trying to actually work gets thrown off their VPNs

Currently steam effectively has two minimise buttons, one to taskbar, one to try. This really doesn't make sense!

If only steam had options to limit bandwidth or to restrict auto-updates to specific times.

Oh wait, it already does have that.

[Iceweazel]

Originally posted by Lum:

Agree with the OP here. Apps that minimise to tray on exit are a relic of the Windows XP era.
...

agreed and this is TERRIBLE design...
Plus, all steam clients outside Linux are still 32bit. Which is completely laughable in this day and age.

Software company my arse. Can I buy a 4 pack for a game I already own yet, 10+ years later? NOPE.

[cinedine]

Originally posted by Crewman:

I agree with the OP. It's crazy that Steam does follow normal conventions for Windows programs. "X" means exit. It doesn't mean minimize. It doesn't mean "keep running in background".

Steam DOES follow windows standards.
[X] means close window. If the application can survive without a window, it will.

[KalGimpa]

Originally posted by Crewman:

I agree with the OP. It's crazy that Steam does follow normal conventions for Windows programs. "X" means exit. It doesn't mean minimize. It doesn't mean "keep running in background". Expecting people to exit the window and then also exit the app running in the background is a bad answer. It lowers my trust in any application that continues running in the background without my consent.

microsoft actually got sued for this. when they pushed their win10 updates and had that popup, the x turned into update in one hour instead of close. a woman lost much of her work files or something like that. her case against them was that the x had always been for exiting and they tricked people into updating by doing this and she won

[Lum]

Originally posted by KeplersConjecture:

If only steam had options to limit bandwidth or to restrict auto-updates to specific times.

Oh wait, it already does have that.

Yeah that would be fine if I had control over the other PCs that are doing this and they weren't owned by people who keep forgetting that Steam doesn't behave like normal applications.

It's just bad UI design, so I can't even blame said users.

[B l u e b e r r y P o p t a r t]

Originally posted by Lum:

Originally posted by KeplersConjecture:

If only steam had options to limit bandwidth or to restrict auto-updates to specific times.

Oh wait, it already does have that.

Yeah that would be fine if I had control over the other PCs that are doing this and they weren't owned by people who keep forgetting that Steam doesn't behave like normal applications.

It's just bad UI design, so I can't even blame said users.

There was no need to necro this for no reason and you still don't seem to understand how Steam works.

Do you know that you and the hand full of others don't even reach 1% of people that would want this option and you know probalby way more would be upset if this was changed and people were playing games and then press the "X" on the client and closed everything including their games that were on.

Now that would be a bad UI design, just because others do it doesn't mean that everyone has to.

It's not hard to right click on tray icon and exit.