How would you change the Steam Interface?

Make it less reliant on Chromium. There's no good reason my library page should use nearly 1gb ram when it had nearly 0 footprint before moving it to Chromium.

And if they roll another chromium-based memory leak into the release? Fuck sake. I spent months only able to run Steam with Chromium disabled, something that's no longer an option.

They should focus on performance over UI changes. It takes 20s to open on my fast gaming laptop. That's not far off from EGS and Windows itself. Meanwhile, the electron-based open source Heroic launcher takes 3s to open.

Bring back an option to disable built-in Chromium

Get a consistent style, that mf is more inconsistent than windows.

Consolidate some items, a lot of them are duplicated

If it's gonna use a load of memory let me theme it, colour schemes, skins based on games and let me switch off the community feeds that are full of shitty trying to be funny guides and crap.

Custom toast popups that pair with the game you are playing.

Reminders for the free stickers in the mobile app during events?

Make it support TOTP instead of its own weird 2FA implementation.

Let it be managed by the window manager. It's fucking atrocious in Linux.

Basically everything in this video: https://youtu.be/cDY2p1CTkPo?si=PxNMLURX7MMx6dLG

Seriously it's mad impressive

I wouldn't change it, it's not broken.

Others already mentioned the more important ones, like less chromium and especiallt better performance jesus christ...

Id want a skin like the 'steam compact' one we had years ago, if you wont add skin support then pls add smaller UI as an option for low-res and Deck desktop users

Fix the hover drop downs (from library or store buttons at the top) to not appear over other apps.

I think this is a Linux only issue but when I’m not even tabbed into the steam launcher and accidentally move my mouse over one of those buttons at the top it shows the dropdown over my currently focused app :/

I honestly want to be able to use similar plugins or an equivalent from my steam deck. The two j can think of are the HLTB (how long to beat) and the protonDB badges. When I look at my library on desktop I can't see if it's deck compatible unless I'm just missing something.

Accessing chats in big picture mode seems worse than how it worked in old big picture mode. Usually if you are in big picture mode it is because you are using a controller, and with the new one it is hard to navigate chats with the controller so I end up using a mouse.

Also, would be nice to have an option to display the entire text of a comment in pop ups, since it often cuts off and I have to entire toggle to overlay , alt tab, or look at the terrible steam chat mobile app. Apps needs work for basic messaging with it not refreshing to show the most recent chat consistently so having to exit and reopen.

Just make it consistent. There are so many buttons, etc. with different styles, layouts, etc.

I mostly use small mode and I feel like it could use a touch up

I wish 'exclude by tags' was more accessible, maybe if it prompted you to view that setting after you 'not interested' a few games that shared the same tags.

I'd remove the need to authenticate for accessing things that are already on your computer. Why does it have a "remember me" checkbox if it's not going to remember me...

@SamXavia
The interface is not outdated.
This not another protest.
Stop it....