Anybody want to make a Windows 8.1 Steam OS theme? XD

[Anthony817]

I am wondering if anybody knows how to make good windows themes or knows of any good ones that have a steam OS theme or Steam theme in general. I am on a mission to make my Windows 8.1 gaming PC feel more Steam-like. I currently have windows boot directly to start menu, and got rid of metro crap in it as much as possible with the awesome 3rd party Start menu shell app.

Anyway, I feel it would be a good thing to have a Steam OS theme for Windows 8. I love how fast the OS is compared to Windows 7, and as opposed to actually installing Steam OS, all my 130 Steam games work natively in my OS.

Enough with my ranting. Would others like to see a nice Steam theme for windows 8?

Discuss.

[Shasow]

Why not do the exact opposite and get the Windows 8 theme for Steam?

[Anthony817]

Because I already have that steam theme and would like to use other aspects of my PC withought breaking the immersion factor. XD

Anyway here is a picture of my desktop and the look I am going for.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-gzOvt0ja0VU/UxfE2hvzPtI/AAAAAAAAACU/h4G_ZGJdFB0/w1497-h842-no/DESKTOP.PNG

Also, that shortcut you see in the corner I use the command line "-steamos" to boot it as Steamos beta and when you opt into steam beta, you get all the nice SteamOS beta features in Big picture mode like the new Music beta without even having to be in the Music beta.

If you guys want to test out the Music beta you can edit a shortcut something like this.

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\Steam.exe" -steamos

[Anthony817]

Looks like somebody is making a Steam Theme for windows. Lets hope this is Windows 8.1 compatible.

http://yorgash.deviantart.com/art/Steam-for-Windows-preview-441200074

[Anthony817]

Grey and Blue? What?

[Shasow]

Anthony817 původně napsal:

Looks like somebody is making a Steam Theme for windows. Lets hope this is Windows 8.1 compatible.

http://yorgash.deviantart.com/art/Steam-for-Windows-preview-441200074

That looks pretty cool.

[Anthony817]

Yeah, just one more reason to not instal Steam OS. All my 132 games just work with Windows. Also, if you boot Steam with the command line argument "-SteamOS" I believe that is it, it will start Steam in Big Picture mode every time you start it and act 100% like Steam OS. So all you have to do it have Windows boot and launch Steam and it will act and look and feel exactly like Steam OS. I have tried this out befor being accepted to the Steam Music beta, and you can shut down the PC with it and everything. I mean, with DirectX 12 coming out, and Mantle, and both are extreemely low level API's, is there really even a need to switch over to linux?

I have my desktop already with the Steam logo, and my login screen as well.

I use Windows 8.1 Pro 64 bit, and I have the system boot directly inyo Desktop, and readded the classic start menu with the app "Classic Start Menu". Anyway, if you do all this and then boot into steam BPM at startup it would act just like a console.

I already have my PC hooked up to my 32 inch 1080p LCD, and it is a dream from my couch.