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Steam skinning issues

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I doubt many people are going to be reading this, but to whomever it may interest:

There's a thread over on the SteamPowered User Forums, under Suggestions/Ideas, echoing once again the age old skinning problems present in Valve's Steam 2010 UI update. You may be thinking that this doesn't affect you, but if you use PixelVision, or any other skin for Steam, this does directly affect you. And Valve have so far never commented on the issue.

If you've ever wondered why the installation of certain skins can be so painful or why you have to jump through so many awkward hoops for some things when configuring a skin (I'm particularly thinking of PixelVision's language fix here), this is why. The post that I'm about to link explains it quite thoroughly, and could give you a decent understand of why skinners do things the way they do, and even why some fancy suggestions are turned down due to the limitations of the skins folder since Steam v4 (2010 UI).

If these issues are fixed, skinning would become so much more flexible and versatile, and translate in a more seamless experience for the end user.

So if you ever feel like posting your thoughts or support in hope that Valve hears you out, here's the thread in question.

forums.steampowered.com/forums…

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Summer

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Well that 2005 journal entry was starting to look a bit dusty, so I thought it would be time for an update, even though nobody visits my front page!

So it's summer. Hurray! Everyone's delighting at the start of a season that we have almost all year long over here on the Mediterranean coast of Spain, and that truly gets a bit too much at this time of year. Cicadas are sounding off all over the place at 120 dB, or whatever it is that they're capable of. Have one sit right outside your window and you'll have a hard time believing something so small can be making such a racket... Well they're all over the place here!

But anyway, I'm  quite happy with the overall reception that my Steam skin, Pixel Vision, has received so far. When I made it I never thought that people would think so much of it. In less than a month it's had almost 25k views, 6k downloads and hundreds of comments across deviantART, Steam Forums and GameBanana. And to think that I almost didn't publish it!

I've also finally gotten around to customising my desktop for the first time in years. Most of the ideas came from deviantART too, so I guess it's only fair that I mention that here. Surprising what a fresh and simply different desktop can do towards making you feel good about your computer!

Anyway, this looks more or less good enough to be called a Summer Journal entry, so I'll leave it at that!

Journal Skin by Thewinator and FacundoDiaz
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New website

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I've just finished the 3rd design of my guild's website, Unreal Concers -u|c-, it's based around a Half-Life modification called Team Fortress Classic aka TFC.

Spent quite a bit of time on that designed all though I also rushed some parts of it coz I'm close to exams at uni and gota start studying :(

Anywayz you can see it at www.unreal-concers.co.uk :)
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