The new Steam: impressions

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Re: The new Steam: impressions

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ZeroAX wrote:
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thank you. I try.

anyway this is overkill valve. Waaaaaaaaayyyyyy too much information in one place, and it's not even tidy. I don't need to see achievements, news and a wallpaper in one place.
The middle button is the least obtrusive, but the game list entries are still 2-3 times bigger than they were.
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Hobie-wan wrote: The middle button is the least obtrusive, but the game list entries are still 2-3 times bigger than they were.

Actually, you can get your games list to look pretty close to what it looked like before. Click that middle button, as hobie said, but then also click the + button and uncheck images/check icons. It will set it to the smaller size and look almost like it did before. I personally like the "details" view though.
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J T wrote: Actually, you can get your games list to look pretty close to what it looked like before. Click that middle button, as hobie said, but then also click the + button and uncheck images/check icons. It will set it to the smaller size and look almost like it did before. I personally like the "details" view though.
Sweet. Hadn't spent enough time looking and poking at it to notice that button. Thank you sir. Still can't make the entire window as small as I'd like, but at least the stuff in the list is smaller now so there's less scrolling to get through it all.
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J T wrote:
Hobie-wan wrote: The middle button is the least obtrusive, but the game list entries are still 2-3 times bigger than they were.

Actually, you can get your games list to look pretty close to what it looked like before. Click that middle button, as hobie said, but then also click the + button and uncheck images/check icons. It will set it to the smaller size and look almost like it did before. I personally like the "details" view though.
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