If this info is available to steam-runtime-system-info, then I'd be happy to include it in the JSON dump at the end of the report - but at the moment I don't think we have any way to find out.
Perhaps when Steam runs s-r-s-i for use in Help -> System Information, it could set an environment variable like STEAM_CLIENT_BUILD=1631058341?
If this info is available to
steam-runtime-system-info, then I'd be happy to include it in the JSON dump at the end of the report - but at the moment I don't think we have any way to find out.
Hmm, perhaps s-r-s-i could read this from ~/.steam/root/package/steam_client_publicbeta_ubuntu12.manifest or ~/.steam/root/package/steam_client_ubuntu12.manifest, whichever one exists? (But we don't currently have open-source C code to parse VDF correctly, so we'd have to screen-scrape it.)
Steam Runtime Diagnostics is now a separate menu item, which only contains steam-runtime-system-info output, but unfortunately that doesn't include the Steam client version number.
If this info is available to
steam-runtime-system-info, then I'd be happy to include it in the JSON dump at the end of the report - but at the moment I don't think we have any way to find out.
This is still true.
Nothing extracted yet.
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Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:
When users report Steam, Steam Runtime or Proton issues and include a Help -> System Information report, they sometimes expect that they don't need to quote the Steam version from Help -> About. However, the Steam client version isn't actually in the System Information report, so if they don't retrieve it from Help -> About, that information is lost.
I would have expected it to appear next to the "Steam Runtime Version", which is included in the report (but is not specific enough to narrow a report down to a particular Steam client build).
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