The new Steam
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The new Steam
by UW Ness » Tue Apr 27, 2010 11:08 pm
What do you guys think of the new Steam? It's kind of cooler looking, but it'll take some getting used to. I'm really hoping they'll make it easy to customize as far as color schemes and such, I really don't like the existing grayish color, kind of bothers my eyes. I did a bit of looking on the Steam forums and found some ways people have been able to make changes.
One that I found makes you replace all the files in two Steam folders, but it makes the background all black with some dark gray gradients, similar to the obsidian skin the old Steam had that I used. Looks better, easier on the eyes too. to that one, and there's others already. I think there might be some that you can apply through the settings in Steam, but I haven't tried any of those.
Another small thing that bugged me is the semitransparent Steam icon in the tasktray, but it's easy to get the original one back, you just replace the steam_tray.ico file in the steam/public folder with the steam.ico (rename it to steam_tray.ico of course) in the steam folder and that'll take care of it. Make sure to restart Steam if you make changes.
Although I changed the tray icon, it didn't change the icon that shows in Steam windows in the taskbar, they still show as the larger grayish ones. Don't like that, haven't found a way to fix that yet though.
One that I found makes you replace all the files in two Steam folders, but it makes the background all black with some dark gray gradients, similar to the obsidian skin the old Steam had that I used. Looks better, easier on the eyes too. to that one, and there's others already. I think there might be some that you can apply through the settings in Steam, but I haven't tried any of those.
Another small thing that bugged me is the semitransparent Steam icon in the tasktray, but it's easy to get the original one back, you just replace the steam_tray.ico file in the steam/public folder with the steam.ico (rename it to steam_tray.ico of course) in the steam folder and that'll take care of it. Make sure to restart Steam if you make changes.
Although I changed the tray icon, it didn't change the icon that shows in Steam windows in the taskbar, they still show as the larger grayish ones. Don't like that, haven't found a way to fix that yet though.
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