Commandline parameter "-nofriendsui" does nothing

steamclosed Not a bug

ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#6312 · opened 2019-06-10 by Jayman2000 · updated 2020-09-09 · 4 comments · github

JJayman2000 2019-06-10 github

Your system information

Steam client version (build number or date): Apr 29 2019, at 20:58:26
Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Ubuntu 18.04
Opted into Steam client beta?: No
Have you checked for system updates?: Yes

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

I launched steam with the command line parameter "-nofriendsui". I expected the friends web UI to be disabled and replaced with the old UI. The parameter actually did nothing.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

Exit Steam.
Run $ steam -nofriendsui
Click View>Friends

Command line output

Workarround:

Launching Steam with the command line parameter "-no-browser" enables the old friends web UI, but it also makes the Steam Store and Steam Overlay Web Browser unusable.

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2019-06-11 github

Hello @Jayman2000, the previous iteration of the friends UI in Steam is no longer supported.

?ghost 2019-07-07 github

The -nochatui parameter still seems to work. Not even listed on the Valve wiki.

JJayman2000 2019-07-08 github

I just tried -nochatui and, unfortunately, it didn't work.

Mmutageneral 2020-09-09 github

Hello @Jayman2000, the previous iteration of the friends UI in Steam is no longer supported.

@kisak-valve
Why not just leave the option to turn it off though? I know the old chat UI still works fine and still exists because I can turn it off with -no-browser but that turns off pretty much everything else with it. Clearly this wasn't a technical reason why you couldn't only turn off the new chat and not turn off Chromium Embedded Framework, it was a decision taken by someone so why.

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