Let me remove the 'What's New' header in my library.

[Sour-Sam]

It can just be a toggle button or something. Just wanna get all the news out of my face so I can just play my games. They don't convince me to play with a new update or event. And I look at those when I decide what to play anyways as the game's page itself will display it for me.

Not to mention they won't be totally out of order it terms of release date for the past 2 weeks, which can be a lot of content. *Edit; My bad. The last 3 weeks. 8D

[WhiteKnight]

Right click each on each box and remove them

[Sour-Sam]

Sounds tedious and a waste of time. I would just like a button to shut them all off at once.

[13119205187913161]

i use the "begone whats new" skin. i don't have a link but i am sure you can find it with google

[Sour-Sam]

Again, I'd rather just have an option to turn it off than have to download a skin offsite.

[13119205187913161]

Originally posted by Sour-Sam:

Again, I'd rather just have an option to turn it off than have to download a skin offsite.

no doubt. there was a large thread about it in the beta forum when it was released(this will probably get moved there or closed). it is the only workaround that i have found

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Originally posted by WhiteKnight:

Right click each on each box and remove them

That's not just tedious but also non-reversible.

The problem with the What's New shelf is that it's just not very useful. It assumes I want to know now and constantly until I dismiss the "news".

In reality, most of the time I don't want to know it, but on occasion, I want to know said "news" for some products (and not necessarily the same ones).

It would help a lot to have a toggle.

Ideally I'd still suggest a replacing it with a simple button to go to the News Hub, a much more comprehensive news page than the What's New shelf which is (1) just pictures and headlines and (2) horizontally-organized unlike the rest of anything else. But right now we can't even make this shelf unstuck from the top of the Library homepage, let alone any other customization.



And yes, I already know that it's possible to edit the Steam client's CSS (in or outside of a skin) to remove it. A toggle would be better than that. But, for those who aren't aware, you can do the following:

1. go to your Steam folder
2. go to the skins folder, and make a new subfolder for a skin, such as "Steam\skins\No What's New"
3. go back out to the main Steam folder and copy the resource folder from there into the skins subfolder you just made
4. in that No What's New folder, open up webkit.css in any text editor
5. add the following text to the top:

[class*="libraryhome_UpdatesContainer"] {
        display: none !important;
}

6. Save, and now you have a skin. (You can add other CSS code to this, such as code to change the background color of your Library.)

EDIT: now you need libraryhome_UpdatesContainer rather than libraryhome_WhatsNew.

There is at least one other way to do this, and I forgot it off the top of my head, but it was less stable. It involved editing a file that Steam would notice and attempt to redownload if it wasn't the same length as before. (It is apparently zealous at this.)



One curious thing though is that Steam seems to have danced around including a toggle.

When the new Steam client UI came out, the What's New shelf was already a thing, but there weren't options for showing only updates or otherwise tweaking the content shown. All those options were added later -- after people asked for a way to turn it off.

Given how simple the CSS edit is to just turn it off, one would expect that a way to turn it off would be less work for Steam devs, compared to making various tweaking controls to the types of content displayed.

So it seems to me like they don't want to let people disable it entirely. It seems like they may have basically promised devs that devs can basically use the What's New shelf to advertise to players (and that is what's happened, both advertising products and advertising for attention more generally), and so it really doesn't want to let people not get advertised at. And they'll bend over backwards to not let people not get advertised at. Which is not very nice of them.

[rawWwRrr]

Originally posted by Quint the Alligator Snapper:

And yes, I already know that it's possible to edit the Steam client's CSS (in or outside of a skin) to remove it. A toggle would be better than that. But, for those who aren't aware, you can do the following:

1. go to your Steam folder
2. go to the skins folder, and make a new subfolder for a skin, such as "Steam\skins\No What's New"
3. go back out to the main Steam folder and copy the resource folder from there into the skins subfolder you just made
4. in that No What's New folder, open up webkit.css in any text editor
5. add the following text to the top:

[class*="libraryhome_WhatsNew"] {
        display: none !important;
}

6. Save, and now you have a skin. (You can add other CSS code to this, such as code to change the background color of your Library.)

I can confirm this is still a valid workaround in lieu of a toggle of some kind. I just responded to someone else in another forum with this. A simple Google search is enough to find this information now.

Originally posted by Quint the Alligator Snapper:

There is at least one other way to do this, and I forgot it off the top of my head, but it was less stable. It involved editing a file that Steam would notice and attempt to redownload if it wasn't the same length as before. (It is apparently zealous at this.)

It would only work for the current session. As soon as Steam was restarted the change would be reverted. It was basically the same as the workaround above but to a different file which I believe is no longer present. The skin override is more preferable as it accomplishes the desired outcome without making edits to Steam files.

[eliotcole]

For what it's worth, this doesn't seem to work on Steam Beta.

I have done exactly as above, and it's still there.

Tried removing the items in it and restarting again, still there.

I will say that before finding this I had been perusing the libraryroot css file, and they've generalised all the classes and ids in there to the point that everything will likely only make sense to the people that wrote it. A search of the Steam folder and subfolders shows only one file that contains the "libraryhome_WhatsNew" text and that's the one I just edited. 😩

((( not saying this to illicit some kind of support, or feeling any entitlement to a response ... just thought i'd mention my experience is all )))

EDIT - Found a fix ... but I'm reticent to share it openly in case they're trying to stop people doing this ... either way ... I worked out the new dev mode (startup argument/switch "-dev -console") and 'none-ing' this div instead worked ... I'll try that in my ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ skin in a second:

.libraryhome_UpdatesContainer_17uEB

EDIT 2 - It absolutely worked.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Huh, is there a change in the beta that's coming down the pipeline to us regular users that's gonna mess with us...well, ain't the first time this has happened, at this point. Thanks for the heads-up.

[knausis]

Originally posted by Quint the Alligator Snapper:

And yes, I already know that it's possible to edit the Steam client's CSS (in or outside of a skin) to remove it. A toggle would be better than that. But, for those who aren't aware, you can do the following:

1. go to your Steam folder
2. go to the skins folder, and make a new subfolder for a skin, such as "Steam\skins\No What's New"
3. go back out to the main Steam folder and copy the resource folder from there into the skins subfolder you just made
4. in that No What's New folder, open up webkit.css in any text editor
5. add the following text to the top:

[class*="libraryhome_WhatsNew"] {
        display: none !important;
}

6. Save, and now you have a skin. (You can add other CSS code to this, such as code to change the background color of your Library.)

There is at least one other way to do this, and I forgot it off the top of my head, but it was less stable. It involved editing a file that Steam would notice and attempt to redownload if it wasn't the same length as before. (It is apparently zealous at this.)

Does this only hides the stupid Whats New shelf but still loads in background, or does it disables it from loading completly?

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Originally posted by balerina:

Does this only hides the stupid Whats New shelf but still loads in background, or does it disables it from loading completly?

I don't know.

I normally just use -no-browser to turn this all off, making this question moot. But I don't know how this in particular works.

[The HopelessGamer™]

Originally posted by balerina:

Originally posted by Quint the Alligator Snapper:

And yes, I already know that it's possible to edit the Steam client's CSS (in or outside of a skin) to remove it. A toggle would be better than that. But, for those who aren't aware, you can do the following:

1. go to your Steam folder
2. go to the skins folder, and make a new subfolder for a skin, such as "Steam\skins\No What's New"
3. go back out to the main Steam folder and copy the resource folder from there into the skins subfolder you just made
4. in that No What's New folder, open up webkit.css in any text editor
5. add the following text to the top:

[class*="libraryhome_WhatsNew"] {
        display: none !important;
}

6. Save, and now you have a skin. (You can add other CSS code to this, such as code to change the background color of your Library.)

There is at least one other way to do this, and I forgot it off the top of my head, but it was less stable. It involved editing a file that Steam would notice and attempt to redownload if it wasn't the same length as before. (It is apparently zealous at this.)

Does this only hides the stupid Whats New shelf but still loads in background, or does it disables it from loading completly?

Removes the entire shelf.

[galumn]

Originally posted by Quint the Alligator Snapper:

1. go to your Steam folder
2. go to the skins folder, and make a new subfolder for a skin, such as "Steam\skins\No What's New"
3. go back out to the main Steam folder and copy the resource folder from there into the skins subfolder you just made
4. in that No What's New folder, open up webkit.css in any text editor
5. add the following text to the top:

[class*="libraryhome_WhatsNew"] {
        display: none !important;
}

6. Save, and now you have a skin. (You can add other CSS code to this, such as code to change the background color of your Library.)

The above method does not work anymore after Steam client updated earlier today.

Do you or anyone else have a new solution for removing What's New section?

I tried changing "libraryhome_WhatsNew" to "libraryhomenewupdates" and it can only remove news articles from showing up, but the whole What's New section still remain on top of library.

EDIT: just found a solution; changing "libraryhome_WhatsNew" to "libraryhome_UpdatesContainer" and it now works like before.

[D.Cipher]

Originally posted by galumn:

EDIT: just found a solution; changing "libraryhome_WhatsNew" to "libraryhome_UpdatesContainer" and it now works like before.

Updated some minutes ago and was about to cry because the what's news was back, but your code works, thank you.

[Pocahawtness]

There is no way that Valve are going to remove this, it's advertising.