A simpler way to add Non-steam games and create/manage collections programmatically

[Schtenk]

This two features would help managing games from multiple different platforms in steam so much easier.

Sorry if this isn't the right place to suggest this or if this is asking to much.

Edit:

What im asking for is the posibility of a more easily and less time consuming way of adding and managing larger quanities of non-steam games than manualy adding each one-by-one.

The reason why I would like this is to be able to have all my games in the same place and be able to take advantage of great features likte Steam Input and Remote Play.

For some deeper info:

I know you can also add non-steam games by editing the file "shortcuts.vdf" in
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\[id]\config "
and that you can automate this with certain programs but it would be nice with a more official and simpler way of doing it.

There is also currently no way (atleast that I know of) of creating or managing collections in any way other than manually doing it.

I know that there have been programs like SteamGridDB Manager but that they no longer work and are no longer being developed, likely because of that it may break when steam updates or because of how limited steam currently is when it comes to this.

Im also not asking steam to be fully implement everything that could be needed for better non-steam game and collection management but to provide something like akin to an API to:

add/remove/change non-steam games in steam.
create, add to and remove games from a collection.

and let the community create a program to manage this like for example something like SteamGridDB Manager.

[Thermal Lance]

Would be great if you provided an example.

From where I am standing, adding non steam games is very straightforward. Not exactly sure what kind of improvement your are hinting at.

[Gwarsbane]

Schtenk の投稿を引用：

This two features would help managing games from multiple different platforms in steam so much easier.

Sorry if this isn't the right place to suggest this or if this is asking to much.

Click on Games, then click on add a non-steam game, then pick what you want to add.... how is that difficult?

[Schtenk]

What im asking for is the posibility of a more easily and less time consuming way of adding and managing larger quanities of non-steam games than manualy adding each one-by-one.

The reason why I would like this is to be able to have all my games in the same place and be able to take advantage of great features likte Steam Input and Remote Play.

For some deeper info:

I know you can also add non-steam games by editing the file "shortcuts.vdf" in
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\[id]\config "
and that you can automate this with certain programs but it would be nice with a more official and simpler way of doing it.

There is also currently no way (atleast that I know of) of creating or managing collections in any way other than manually doing it.

I know that there have been programs like SteamGridDB Manager but that they no longer work and are no longer being developed, likely because of that it may break when steam updates or because of how limited steam currently is when it comes to this.

Im also not asking steam to be fully implement everything that could be needed for better non-steam game and collection management but to provide something like akin to an API to:

add/remove/change non-steam games in steam.
create, add to and remove games from a collection.

and let the community create a program to manage this like for example something like SteamGridDB Manager.

[Draeka3]

It's mindnumbingly easy untlee you use a theme that puts it elsewhere...

[Schtenk]

Draeka3 の投稿を引用：

It's mindnumbingly easy untlee you use a theme that puts it elsewhere...

im not asking where the button is or how to do it, im talking about a way to add and manage maybe hundreds of games without having to do it manually

[Vaporizer549]

Hi, dont know if people were trolling you or dont know how to read and comprehend what you were asking. I have similar issue and now after setting up a decent collection one by one, i had big issues with my system and had to clean and reinstall steam. In run ubuntu and the added layer of compatdata have put me in a situation where i have to do it all over and one by one go and remove all old compatdata folders as steam reconfigure games completely if they are not steam native games.

Did u find any tools or an easy way to massimport games? I am quite displeased to set up my system from complete scratch again as steam under linux is a very bad experiece right now.

[John]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.