Adwaita for Steam

A skin to make Steam look more like a native GNOME app

Current state and plans

• Main window: mostly done
• Settings: partially done
• Common controls: mostly done
• New library, new chat, other web-based client parts: in progress
• Old library, old chat, other old unused windows: not planned
• Small mode and other secondary windows: planned if requested
• Overlay: unchanged, not planned
• High resolutions: all new graphics assets have @2x variants that will be used when scaling is enabled in both Steam and OS settings
• Recoloring: colors can be changed in Adwaita/adw/colors.styles
• Light theme: not planned, would require redrawing all assets to be visible on light backgrounds

Limitations

• Rounded corners: impossible to do in a Steam skin, use Rounded Window Corners extension or mutter-rounded on GNOME
• Height of menu/sidebar items: doesn't seem to be possible to increase

Requirements

• The skin was created for Linux version of Steam and wasn't tested on Windows or macOS. It will probably work with additional visual issues
• The skin uses Cantarell as the default font, it may look broken without it

Installation

With installer script

git clone https://github.com/tkashkin/Adwaita-for-Steam
cd Adwaita-for-Steam
./install.py

Run ./install.py -l to see customization options and ./install.py -p ${patch_name} to apply them.

Run ./install.py -w {base, full, none} to change the type of theme for web based elements of steam. base is a basic default, full includes heavier theming (including chat), and none disables this feature.

Run ./install.py -we ${web_extra_name} to add an optional extra to the web theme.

Run ./install.py -h to see all installer options.

Manual installation

1. Download the latest skin version
2. Extract Adwaita directory into Steam skins directory (create if it doesn't exist):
   • Linux: ~/.steam/steam/skins or ~/.local/share/Steam/skins
   • Linux (flatpak): ~/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/skins
   • ~~Windows~~ (untested): C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\skins by default
   • ~~macOS~~ (untested): ~/Library/Application Support/Steam/Steam.AppBundle/Steam/Contents/MacOS/skins
3. Open Steam and select Adwaita skin in Settings > Interface (restart Steam if it doesn't appear in the list)