Touch screen support for Steam?

[Catachrism]

Hello everyone I would like to start a topic, if it has not been done already. I would like to request touch screen support for steam. I recently purchased a surface pro and have found it excellent for playing non graphically intensive games, which steam has many. I prefer it over tablets ios and android because with steam I am getting the PC version, full quality, no corners cut for weaker processors etc...Game like Limbo, Sonic, Clash of Heroes, FF7, etc are all excellent on the surface as I imagine they would be on any touch screen PC. With the increasing emergence of touch screen cabaple PC's getting larger and larger I think it would be smart to add this functionality.

So my request would be to allow the steam interface/browser we all know and love, to be touch freindly.

If this has been covered please let me know, the only posts I found when searching were for touch screen friendly games not the actual UI.

[CvP]

Xirii님이 먼저 게시:

We are simply asking for an interface to support Windows 8 Gestures. Just because Valve believes Windows 8 is a disaster, (which I've no idea why. It's worked for me perfectly and I have no complaints with it at all) shouldnt affect the fact that this is something that is here now, and touchscreens etc. aren't going to go away any time soon.

On top of that, this disaster OS has 23% share on Steam within 1.5 years and increase by 1% (or more) each passing month.

Windows 7 market share is also dropping fast.

Where linux share...no comment needed. lol.

[Τhe Rolling Cheese Wheel]

CvP | SMY님이 먼저 게시:

Xirii님이 먼저 게시:

We are simply asking for an interface to support Windows 8 Gestures. Just because Valve believes Windows 8 is a disaster, (which I've no idea why. It's worked for me perfectly and I have no complaints with it at all) shouldnt affect the fact that this is something that is here now, and touchscreens etc. aren't going to go away any time soon.

On top of that, this disaster OS has 23% share on Steam within 1.5 years and increase by 1% (or more) each passing month.

Windows 7 market share is also dropping fast.

Where linux share...no comment needed. lol.

Windows 7 market share dropping fast? Hahahah ye right. Come back to this thread when windows 8 gets 50% market share on steam. I'm willing to bet that won't even happen before windows 9 or 10 is released.

Windows 8 is a disaster because it forces kb/m users to deal with the atrocity that is metro interface. I have never seen such a lazily done operating system before. Hopefully Microsoft gets their head on straight for windows 9, or they will experience the adoption rate failure of windows 8 again.

[CvP]

Τhe Rolling Cheese Wheel님이 먼저 게시:

CvP | SMY님이 먼저 게시:

On top of that, this disaster OS has 23% share on Steam within 1.5 years and increase by 1% (or more) each passing month.

Windows 7 market share is also dropping fast.

Where linux share...no comment needed. lol.

Windows 7 market share dropping fast? Hahahah ye right. Come back to this thread when windows 8 gets 50% market share on steam. I'm willing to bet that won't even happen before windows 9 or 10 is released.

Windows 8 is a disaster because it forces kb/m users to deal with the atrocity that is metro interface. I have never seen such a lazily done operating system before. Hopefully Microsoft gets their head on straight for windows 9, or they will experience the adoption rate failure of windows 8 again.

23% share in 1.5 years. I'd like some of that fail.

[Τhe Rolling Cheese Wheel]

CvP | SMY님이 먼저 게시:

Τhe Rolling Cheese Wheel님이 먼저 게시:

Windows 7 market share dropping fast? Hahahah ye right. Come back to this thread when windows 8 gets 50% market share on steam. I'm willing to bet that won't even happen before windows 9 or 10 is released.

Windows 8 is a disaster because it forces kb/m users to deal with the atrocity that is metro interface. I have never seen such a lazily done operating system before. Hopefully Microsoft gets their head on straight for windows 9, or they will experience the adoption rate failure of windows 8 again.

23% share in 1.5 years. I'd like some of that fail.

After Microsoft literally gave it away for free and after a big update, yeah it's a fail. 23% adoption rate in 1.5 years is less than 1.3% percent adoption rate per month, I don't see how that is a success.

Of course steam is only a small sample size, globally according to net applications, windows 8 has less than 12 percent market share.

So again how is windows 8 a success?

[Xirii]

The success of windows 8 is again irrelevant. To be fair touch screen support isn't going to just go away with subsequent OS'. People will eventually have to move on as software and hardware advances. We can't all run windows 7 forever like XP was run. Microsoft wants to get back on track releasing OS' every three years, and dropping things like service packs, you cant just keep on the same kernel and same code base forever. Windows 8 is being treated like Vista was all because some small minded individuals cant adjust to something different.

[Christof]

Exactly!

[Τhe Rolling Cheese Wheel]

I'm sorry what, touch screen is only relevant to certain platforms. General pc usage and pc gaming isn't one of them. Touch interface is also completely garbage for the obvious superior controls which are mouse and keyboard. There are only 3 things touch is good for. Mobile when mouse and keyboard is not available, casual gaming, and artwork tablets.

[Catachrism]

I love when people state opinion as fact. The Rolling cheese wheel, which is a perfect user name for him/her, is the defnition of a troll. This thread is about touch support for the steam interface. Not in games, not platform superiority, and certainly not whether touch control in games is better than mouse and Keyboard. We understand that these things aren't an issue for a "real PC gamer" and that the cheese is "superior" to those of us that have both a gaming PC and a tablet PC, obviously...lol. I mean who wants their games portabel? It's absurd really right? It must be because it's someone's opinion that it's absurd and that means it's a fact.

That is the last I will adress the cheese wheel of trolling, as the thread is getting derailed hard...so please don't respong to the troll I will follow this going forward myself. Any relevent information and suggestions are welcome. Thaks to users who posted about Steam Tile which works great :)

[Midnex]

Τhe Rolling Cheese Wheel님이 먼저 게시:

I'm sorry what, touch screen is only relevant to certain platforms. General pc usage and pc gaming isn't one of them. Touch interface is also completely garbage for the obvious superior controls which are mouse and keyboard. There are only 3 things touch is good for. Mobile when mouse and keyboard is not available, casual gaming, and artwork tablets.

Guess nobody will ever play with a controller, due to those superior mouse and keyboard controls we all have.

[Xirii]

Τhe Rolling Cheese Wheel님이 먼저 게시:

I'm sorry what, touch screen is only relevant to certain platforms. General pc usage and pc gaming isn't one of them. Touch interface is also completely garbage for the obvious superior controls which are mouse and keyboard. There are only 3 things touch is good for. Mobile when mouse and keyboard is not available, casual gaming, and artwork tablets.

Obvious troll is obvious. Considering you haven't actually used a system with one for any length of time at all which is glaringly apparent that you don't find it good for general pc use (you ever used it to scroll with? dat kinetic scrolling) is nuts.

At the moment it is gimmicky/semi-useful admittedly but that doesnt make your mouse and keyboard superior. People have all kinds of uses for the tools they are provided with, and some like minded individuals would like to see touch support on the UI for steam.

If its anything like my mouse and keyboard, well my keyboard specifically, its a sack of crap. Never buy a razer deathstalker.

Midnex님이 먼저 게시:

Guess nobody will ever play with a controller, due to those superior mouse and keyboard controls we all have.

+1.

[CvP]

Deathstalker is a piece of crap lol. Blackwidow ultimate is the best

And Rolling Cheese Wheel, please stop meaningless trolling. People like you said the same thing when Mouse was introduced to PC.

Touch is a first class input method along with Keyboard and Mouse. They each have their own unique strengths and weaknesses and none of them are going away anytime soon. However, as time passes, keyboard/mouse will be used less and less where touch (along with gesture, voice) will be used more and more.

I'm a die hard kb/m user. I hate controllers and I don't like touch on desktop either. But that doesn't mean I'm blind or idiot. Here is something for you...how people like you reacted when the Mouse (that you love so much) first came by:

•“Mice are nice ideas, but of dubious value for business users” (George Vinall, PC Week, April 24, 1984)
•“There is no evidence that people want to use these things.” (John C. Dvorak, San Francisco Examiner, February 19, 1984)
•“I was having lots of fun, but in the back of my corporate mind, I couldn't help but think about productivity.” (George Vinall, PC Week, April 24, 1984)
•“Does the mouse make the computer more accessible, more friendly, to certain target audiences such as executives? The answer is no.” (Computerworld, October 31, 1983)
•“There is no possibility that this device will feel more comfortable to the executive than the keyboard. Because of its ‘rollability,’ the mouse has the aura of a gimmick…” (Computerworld, October 31, 1983)
•“The mouse and its friends are merely diversions in this process. What sounds revolutionary does not necessarily help anyone with anything, and therein lies the true test of commercial longevity.” (David A. Kay, Datamation, October 1983)

[CoLLiDe]

A touchscreen support for Steam would be very nice.

[Xirii]

CvP x SMY | No Dotemptation Pls!님이 먼저 게시:

Deathstalker is a piece of crap lol. Blackwidow ultimate is the best :golden:

My blackwidow basically does the same my deathstalker does after two years, my next board is gonna be a corsair me thinks when this one stops all together.

[appel]

This would be awesome and make browsing and launching games on my daily commute a lot easier.

[Midnex]

I often look at steam on my phone cause steam lacks touch support so using it on my tablet sucks. Wish I could use my tablet also.