Steam UI beta

[VoX]

Ok, steam designers need a slap. I was using a Custom L4D one before this and it was better than this in every way.


Everything is over-glossed, there's massive wastes of space, the friends list has an insane amount of banding, actually, a LOT of things have banding! Valve have forgot one of the biggest things in design - Joe public can't afford 10-bit IPS panels and hardware calibrators! They've used gradients on very close colours, and while this looks all hunky dory for them, it looks shite for me and I'd assume quite a few other people too (My monitor doesn't band in normal usage, passes the test on lagom.nl as well.)

The interface feels sluggish and the buttons look pathetic and cheap.


I would go back to the old skin, however I'll have to use this when it's no longer a beta, plus I might as well leave it to download MW2. (Could re-install from disc but I'd rather not loose all my saves and have to start multi player from level 1 again =/)

Edit: Chat windows are now labelled "Chat with xxx" which is fucking pointless as you loose half their name and all of it if the bar has to shrink in size. "xxx - Chat" was so much better.

Not amused.

[Bloo]

I would go back to the old skin, however I'll have to use this when it's no longer a beta, plus I might as well leave it to download MW2. (Could re-install from disc but I'd rather not loose all my saves and have to start multi player from level 1 again =/)

While I don't actually care about the rest of the post, as for me the beta is no better or worse than the original, but you don't need to start back at level 1 in MP. Your level is saved online I think, it's basically the main benefit of IWNet.