A Different Idea For The SteamOS UI

Agreed, this interface simply does not work. It hardly exposes any of the Steam features, like categories, favorites, gamepad friendly icon (minor, but useful), etc.. I also cannot see how the gamepad input feature would fit with that chat interface.

To put my initial thoughts into words; it's a simplistic media center! Why would I ever want to expose my huge game list in such a space craving, hard to find, format. To be frank, that format even has its problems when you have a big movie collection, but at least there genres are easier to implement.

In the interest of fairness, I might as well add the single issue I have with the real Big Picture Mode. The way the return/back command works can be a bit confusing to some. I imagine it as return to a higher tier menu, but in reality it is return to last viewed page. It should not matter too much though, just me wired another way.

I'm afraid you'll have to add me to the list of people that this doesn't appeal to, BUT on the other hand I applaud the effort that went into it. :)

I think it's great to show that a lot of people would be interested in changing the theme of SteamOS/BPM. Ideally, I think things could really shine if Valve made an API for the Steam client that would allow themers to basically build their own interface from the ground up. While a lot of people here in this thread seem not to like this particular PSN-ish skin, I think what we should take away from this is that Linux is about choice. That's why we're all here. If Valve/SteamOS can become the Google/Android of gaming, then we're all in for a wild ride!