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CourteousKnight Jul 3, 2016 @ 11:27pm

Big Picture mode skins

Is it possible for "skin developers" to make skins for the big picture mode? I have looked it up and found out it is not possible since steam deletes/resets the files after every restart of steam.

Would it be possible to create a section for "skins" in big picture mode just like in regular mode and not delete the skin files?

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Black Blade Jul 4, 2016 @ 11:56am

i do agree that be nice

even that they did say something abut background on BPM from the item once

hope that will not be the reason

baconicsynergy Jan 8, 2017 @ 8:57pm

I would love to have at least different colors available for big picutre, or custom dynamic backgrounds. This wouldn't require drastic changes to the UI. It totally and should be done :)

CourteousKnight Jan 8, 2017 @ 9:21pm

Originally posted by BaconicSynergy:
I would love to have at least different colors available for big picutre, or custom dynamic backgrounds. This wouldn't require drastic changes to the UI. It totally and should be done :)

I just don't know if anyone will do anything on Steam's side. I hope they do though.

Black Blade Jan 9, 2017 @ 4:31am

Originally posted by BaconicSynergy:
I would love to have at least different colors available for big picutre, or custom dynamic backgrounds. This wouldn't require drastic changes to the UI. It totally and should be done :)

To be honest i think Valve wanted to montize it
as in let you select backgrounds that you use for your Steam Profile on there
even that as they seem to drop it i hope they will add an opsion to skin it like the nowrmal clinet

Sumea Oct 6, 2017 @ 4:29am

As user, I would really like big picture mode to be skinnable. Valve's goal with these great tools is make console comfortable gaming which I am liking with my PC, with many games that came originally from Japanese devs for PS3 or PS4, and so on. Big picture is really nice thing overall to make computer temporarily fully controller usable but it also is set in certain way which is not very PERSONAL computing to me, especially when steam itself has been in a custom skin for me. Big picture does not look bad or anything, but it would be nice to be able to change it for my own tastes- Heck even game consoles up to 3DS offer custom themes so why not steam big picture, heh.