Provide the old steam theme as a skin installed by default

[Rabcor]

It would be really cool if steam shipped with a selection of skins in the skin folder instead of just with the default skin. Right now I am very unpleased with the new user interface (although I love the improved font rendering), people hate change and we all know it.

But I am mostly unamused with how "flat" the color palette has become, it's as if it has been tailored to better blend with Windows 8, this is most noticable on the notifications in my opinion, but there are also other parts of the UI whereit is just... well.. not as aesthetically pleasing as it was before. I find it ironic that it's color palette was adjusted to better blend with Windows 8 after how much of a distaste Gabe Newell officially declared over it (which I agreed with coincidentally, but that is off topic and irrelevant I guess)

I also think that the blue border on the instant messaging window isn't working out.

All that it would take for me to be satisfied with the aesthetics of steam again would be the ability to use the old theme instead of the new one, and it would make sense for a program like steam to ship with a few aesthetic configurations for users to choose from since it already offers theming functionality. The original theme also blended in perfectly with the default theme of Enlightenment which I am currently using in Linux as my main desktop environment.

[Agent47]

At least the old icon also was indicating of whether or not Steam was downloading something. Now it just looks the same whether it's downloading or idle.
And this icon looks like Uplay... that's not a compliment.

[сучара]

#GiveUsTheOldSkin

[Dyze]

/signed
Old skin and old icon! please!

[Rabcor]

Publicado originalmente por PrimexDrn:

Publicado originalmente por CunDu47Kalopsia:

Yes, please.
This is terrible. And that new Tray Icon made me think I left Uplay on or something.
The old design was perfect, please bring it back as an option.

EXACTLY! If it wasn't broken , Don't force change Valve

I share these sentiments. The new icon might be stylish, I will admit, but it is just not... as good as the old one was, this might work out very well with SteamOS (and I'm sure that's one of the bigger driving forces behind these changes; to create a uniform look for big picture mode, steam windowed mode and the steamos desktop, which is a great plan too) but for windows and for most linux distributions as well, the old icon, the old theme, the old notification style all just worked better.

This new look is not bad, it is very professional but it just... it's not something we actually wanted. We liked the old theme, because of it's lack of color (i.e. it was all black and gray) it blended in perfectly with any environment, with this new blue tint however... it doesn't blend as well.

Show us some love please <3 give us the option to use the old icon and the old theme instead.

I would have suggested rather than changing the color of the windowed steam the color of big picture mode should be changed, but I know better because the color in big picture mode was really really well chosen and it is perfect for a console. Colors have an effect on our brain, but we who are not using big picture mode did not want this.

[Zzzzzx]

Old Steam theme team, shoot eye lazer beam when without cream.
Better not be a pipe dream or I'll scream.

[vakatosh]

I like the new steam tho. :(

[Draconicrose]

I like the new theme, except the icon color. Round and black would be best. But, agreed, they could offer the old theme as optional in the skins folder.

[McFlurry Butts]

Honestly, everything is fine except that blue glow at the top, it just throws me off for some reason and strains my eyes.

[Binx]

I can't read the new blue/green font changes. Extremely blurry no matter what I do and migraine inducing.

[Ranko]

People first complain about the UI being too outdated and needing an update, it gets an update, things change, people complain about it changing.

[Maul]

Agreed 100%. I just hate the blue. Steam is black and white and has always been since I first started using this store thousands of years ago, since I was a kid. There's no logical reason to change it's visual identity. I want the squared black and white logo back!

[Deslug]

+1

[Rabcor]

Publicado originalmente por Malik Blishtar:

People first complain about the UI being too outdated and needing an update, it gets an update, things change, people complain about it changing.

The UI still is outdated and still needs an update, complaining that the UI is outdated is not the same as complaining about the theme, the theme is just the superficial look of the UI, not the UI itself. Steam is mostly just a browser for ♥♥♥♥♥ sake, and the game library menu is not well suited for big collections of games (say 100+ games)

We're not really complaining about the theme, we're complaining that we can't switch back to the old one.

[RankerBR]

+1

[Nejco]

this is kinda solution for now http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showpost.php?p=35692484&postcount=50
but chat looks terrable. another solution is finding user created skin that you like