The Steam skinning community has seen better days, but some hackers are still fighting the good fight.
And they want Valve to help.
Do you like the way your Steam client looks?
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“It makes you wonder what Valve thinks about all of it.”
Ostensibly, Steam has supported custom themes (or “skins”) for more than a decade now.
Jonius7 says that his motivation in making Old Glory was rather straightforward.
“Honestly, I think the default layout sucks,” he explains.
And the tweaks just grew from there.
There’s also a Discord with more in-depth explanations.
Why not the core client?
“I would just like to say to someone at Steam, ‘you support your game modders.
Why don’t you support us?’
I think all we really need is a line of communication to Valve,” Jonius7 says.
“It doesn’t even have to be that big or official.
Just a little communication would be nice.”
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