Talk:User Interface Bugs

It's looking and working great. --wisemx 14:51, 6 Oct 2005 (PDT)

It's a little disappointing to see the 'monitor' window being dumped completely from the STEAM interface. Is that going to be put back in in the full release?

What are the bugs from that this is talking about?—ts2do ^(talk) 17:59, 6 Oct 2005 (PDT)

Start "steam.exe -clientbeta betaui" - new beta steam UI.

Someone should go through the bug list. I see plenty of "bugs" that are technically suggestions (IE: such-and-such doesn't have the new skin). - The_MAZZTer 10-07-05 2:38p EDT

Suggestions

• It might behoove the developers to put a note somewhere instructing each person to append their name to their bug report line so that the developers at least have a point of contact. Just my two cents. —AlphaWolf
• Right click on the toolbar steam icon, pick games, and get a little hierarchical sub-menu with all the games. Directly launch without having to open games window. Beats having to open up the whole UI, especially for the more "obscure" things like the SDK.
• Have the favorites for each game be available for direct access when you right click on a game in the game window. Single player games could offer saved games instead of server favorites.
• Small menu accessable via toolbar does not match the UI layout/flow of the application when open. Menu is "Games, Friends, Servers, Settings, News, Exit" whereas Steam UI in main window is "Store, My games, Tools" plus "News, Friends, Servers, Settings, Support". They would benefit from having a similar order. Also placing "missing" options (news, store, tools, support) into shortcuts toolbar menu would help streamline things. Having support in popup toolbar menu could also encourage more visits to the support site.
• Add the possibility to remove the game not wanted (Hide Game on right click)
• Add the possibility to the 3 rd party mod to add custom icon and official mod url site.
  • Agreed - it would be great to have that info be in the gameinfo.txt or some such file in the 3rd party mod, so if installed it would automatically show up in Steam.
    • If you add the keys "developer" and "developer_url" to the gameinfo.txt, they should show up in the UI - please test.
      • Works, seems to require reload of Steam to refresh the information.
      • Can this be done with HL1 third party mods as well?
  • Some mods have a custom icon, but Steam never loads it. Weird how they were included anyways, unless Steam supported them before I started using it?
• Organize "My games" list into a tree of collapsable groups of similar games.
• Option to see the Tools entries in the small view, as before.
• Split the 3rd party mods away once again from the offical games keeping the menu looking simply/easy to use.
• As noted above, the monitor option should not be taken away. It's a huge help to be able to see what Steam is actually doing in the background. Besides, I think we have a right to know what's going on with our network connections.  :) —escher
  • It's been merged with the expanded My Games tab.

Gleeful clapping of hands

• Ah, the store looks much better in this second version of the beta. —Maven ^(talk)
• No more clutter with seeing "coming soon" or "now available" games that you don't care about ever playing. Outstanding! I hope it stays this way. —AlphaWolf 18:01, 7 Oct 2005 (PDT)
• I dig it.--Fconcepcion@gmail.com 15:18, 9 Oct 2005 (PDT)

Fixed

• Internet games tab in serverbrowser is slow with more than 1000 servers in the list.
• Add a scrollbar in backup wizard when backing up more games than can fit on one page
• Sometimes clickable menu items always appearing checked
• Every item in "Update" column turned into "box" symbol. No "news". Unable to recreate. Possibly related to turning colum displays on and off.
• Some third party mods read "Third-party" as the developer and have no link, others read "[ Third-Party ]" and have a link to www.steampowered.com from them.
  • It's HL1 engine mods which have the link listed.
• Some machines show squares when drawing empty columns
• 'purchasing...' progress dialog doesn't have much room on the bottom
• no progress moving when installing games( 'creating cache files' )
• UI style of scrollbar in Backup games is inconsistent with other scrollbars. Scrollable area also is in a squared rather than rounded corner rectangle and missing the drop shadow look of Games list (for example). [Duplicate]
• If you right click on a third party mod in "My games" and select "Backup game files..." you'll find there are no 3d party mods listed
  • Fixed by removing unsupported 'backup game files...' context menu option from 3rd party mods
• The context menus for games on the My Games tab display a line even if there's no items below it (see Rag Doll Kung Fu on an account where it's preloaded but not preordered).
• If you have an out of date video card driver and try to connect to a server via the serverbrowser the command line is incorrect
• Pause update from context menu, then launch game, context menu then says "Pause update" rather than "Resume update"
• Loading any sort of game (HL1/2, HL1/2 mods (both valve made and 3rd party), then exiting and then attempt to load a 3rd party mod will result in loading HL2 sp - Steam "thinks" that all mods are HL2 single player (i.e allows you options that are available only to valve games). To be able to play 3rd party mods again you have to exit Steam and run it again.
• The Day of Defeat: Source icon (white circle/white star) is outdated. Update to the newer icon.
• Download speed is written as Kb/s, whereas it looks more like KB/s.
• Third party games may be listed as "Half-Life 2" on shrunken games window. [1]
• Pre-order now button on preload dialog should minimize the preload dialog, currently hides store
• Support button changes to minigameslist, after going to mini-games list once
• Preload Game DoD: Source is not in Gameliste
• The Store window is not properly detecting what I own. ie: says I own Half Life 2: Demo instead of Half Life 2. I appearently don't own anything except CS, CZ and Codename Gordon. I purchased the Silver package, so it should say I own everything except Rag Doll Kung Fu.
• "Pause pre-loading" is still visible on the right-click-menu even if the preload is complete. ( test on RDKF )
• In "My Games" list, "Half-Life 2: Lost Cost" shows up as "100% - Ready", but has no right-click menu and won't launch. I can click the "Properties" button while it's highlighted, however, and the dialog says that it's not released (which is true).
• Third party mods have no "Properties" option when you right click on them for context menu. This means you can't set command line options.
  • You can click the Properties button below the list, but I do agree it should be on the right click menu as well
  • Exactly, not many are going to use the large server list, they will use the smaller one, which doesn't have that option. [Smurf]