Will Steam skins return?

[Toreador]

Ever since Valve removed the -nochatui and -nofriendsui launch options from steam people who used those options such as myself are now forced to use this new overlay while it has features that are definately lacking from the old one it has made steam skins like Metro, Threshold, Air, Air classic and Pixel to essentially break since the new chat and friends list interface are unaffected by the skin's changes

[Count_Dandyman]

Ask the skin makers if they will make new versions Steam has nothing to do with them.

[Black Blade]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Count_Dandyman:

Ask the skin makers if they will make new versions Steam has nothing to do with them.

The problem is new UI dont support skinning (I may be out dated but I dont think so)
Come 2019 if there is no change and all the clinet change we cant skin becouse Valve did not add support
PixelVision2 was all ready updated where it can to the new UI
The chat and friend list cant be effected how ever

[Xpliciit]

The custom skin I made while relatively basic hasn't had any problems with the new UI.

[Blargo]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Black Blade:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Count_Dandyman:

Ask the skin makers if they will make new versions Steam has nothing to do with them.

The problem is new UI dont support skinning (I may be out dated but I dont think so)
Come 2019 if there is no change and all the clinet change we cant skin becouse Valve did not add support
PixelVision2 was all ready updated where it can to the new UI
The chat and friend list cant be effected how ever

Steam is now HTML-based, right?
Couldn't skin makers use CSS to style it?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

The new UI supports skins. The new UI has been here since the beta in June. Way more than enough time for the skin makers to update them.

The skin makers just need to update their skins for every new update Valve pushes out.

[Black Blade]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Dxpress:

Steam is now HTML-based, right?
Couldn't skin makers use CSS to style it?

If nothing changed from when I last looked into it (when trying to see how hard will be to update PixelVision2 for the new UI) Steam don't let you over write there code, and stuff in the skins folder don't effect the new UI

Ursprünglich geschrieben von cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

The new UI supports skins. The new UI has been here since the beta in June. Way more than enough time for the skin makers to update them.

The skin makers just need to update their skins for every new update Valve pushes out.

Maybe I am missing something, if you talking about the desktop stuff, that is not the new UI I am talking about, that is the old UI with some small changes
The new UI the one that shows in Big Picture Mode, and Friends list + Chat is unskinbale as much as I know, if nothing changed from when I looked at it last

[wuddih]

the rest of the ui still has to receive an update, just the chat is updated atm and that does not support Steam current skinning system.
i assume Steam will drop the current system entirely when the new client is released.

the new stuff will be html based and if they just allow overwriting files, then skinning will be way more open.

[Spawn of Totoro]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von wuddih:

the rest of the ui still has to receive an update, just the chat is updated atm and that does not support Steam current skinning system.
i assume Steam will drop the current system entirely when the new client is released.

the new stuff will be html based and if they just allow overwriting files, then skinning will be way more open.

Agreed.

The new UI is not compatable for XP and Vista users, hence why the old UI is still in play. They drop support for XP/Vista next year, so the old UI may be out the door at that time.

I wouldn't be surprised if the new UI skin is restricted untill release (or a little after) either, so they can work out any issues that may be caused by using a 3rd party skin.

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Dxpress:

Steam is now HTML-based, right?
Couldn't skin makers use CSS to style it?

I thought it was always HTML/Web based as it was made around Chromium.

[Baltist]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Spawn of Totoro:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von wuddih:

the rest of the ui still has to receive an update, just the chat is updated atm and that does not support Steam current skinning system.
i assume Steam will drop the current system entirely when the new client is released.

the new stuff will be html based and if they just allow overwriting files, then skinning will be way more open.

Agreed.

The new UI is not compatable for XP and Vista users, hence why the old UI is still in play. They drop support for XP/Vista next year, so the old UI may be out the door at that time.

I wouldn't be surprised if the new UI skin is restricted untill release (or a little after) either, so they can work out any issues that may be caused by using a 3rd party skin.

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Dxpress:

Steam is now HTML-based, right?
Couldn't skin makers use CSS to style it?

I thought it was always HTML/Web based as it was made around Chromium.

No, a lot of the recent changes is to recode steam into CEF (which to my knowledge is chromium). That's why the new UI isn't copatable for XP and Vista, hence valve dropping support for those OSes. That said i think this whole situation is completely ****ing R-E-T-A-R-D-E-D.
This new chat UI is so cancerous in terms of design and gets to the point of being down right unusable. They could've at the very least tried to recreate the older interface and add options, but apperently suffer from the "one size fits all" mentality. Nobody asked for these drastic changes that quite clearly should've stayed in beta. They're reffusal to give their users options is ****ing weird and could've easily been solved with day one skin support.

[Start_Running]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Spawn of Totoro:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von wuddih:

the rest of the ui still has to receive an update, just the chat is updated atm and that does not support Steam current skinning system.
i assume Steam will drop the current system entirely when the new client is released.

the new stuff will be html based and if they just allow overwriting files, then skinning will be way more open.

Agreed.

The new UI is not compatable for XP and Vista users, hence why the old UI is still in play. They drop support for XP/Vista next year, so the old UI may be out the door at that time.

I wouldn't be surprised if the new UI skin is restricted untill release (or a little after) either, so they can work out any issues that may be caused by using a 3rd party skin.

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Dxpress:

Steam is now HTML-based, right?
Couldn't skin makers use CSS to style it?

I thought it was always HTML/Web based as it was made around Chromium.

I guess that means I'll have to redo my curator hiding skin