I've been through all the comments, suggestions, and feedback since our release on Friday and compiled them below along with my thoughts. Thanks to everyone who spoke up with ideas, found bugs, and shared your opinions. There were many kind words, and it warms my heart to hear you guys enjoying the new theme! :D

As a random aside: if any of you guys are redditors, I have a post on /r/gaming that could use some love!

Back on track though, I'm going to go point by point starting with the biggest topics:

This is definitely the most highly requested feature, and also the most painstaking to implement. It's quite a large undertaking to manage and keep one skin up to date, let alone two. This becomes a larger issue for me since I tend to be a perfectionist. That means I really only spend my time focusing on one of them and the other gets left in the dust (read: Air Light).

As my patrons on Patreon already know, I was attempting to implement a dark theme previously and had to let it drop in favor of just getting this vanilla version of Air released. It was more important for me to finish one project rather than sit around with two of them only 50% done.

I'm not really sure what the best course of action is here, small options are one thing, but a full color theme is another. With that said, at least 50 people asked for a dark color theme in the last two days as well, and I'm not going to ignore that.

At this point, I don't want to make any promises that I can't keep. I'd like to focus on the smaller issues (below) and the currently outstanding bugs first. This will continue to be on the top of my to-do list until I find a good solution or have the time to spare.

Expect more on this topic as we move forward, but nothing is going to happen overnight.

If any of you guys have used the overlay in the last few days you've probably run into this bug. Text on light backgrounds renders horribly. This is a known Steam bug that has been present since the 2010 UI update and Valve has made no move to fix it. At this point, I find it highly unlikely that we will see a fix.

This isn't something that I can fix either, it's one of the realities of a light skin. I don't find it to be a dealbreaker personally, but again, that is my opinion. There isn't really a good solution other than not using a light skin, which brings us back to the dark theme topic from above.

With that said, disabling DirectWrite from Settings > Interface does help a small bit.

There were a few conversations about text being hard to read on the light background. I'm not sure if these are actually due to a lack of contrast or if they can be attributed to those who would rather not use a light skin in general. I personally don't have any issues reading the text, but everyone has different tastes in this matter.

What do you guys think?

This is something I plan to add. It should double as a quick way to see your balance and also provide a link to your account details page.

I removed the URL bar because it doesn't seem necessary. You can't actually edit or interact with the URL which defeats its whole purpose. The only thing that I am aware of that it's used for (please correct me if I'm wrong) is to copy the link of your current page.

This functionality can be found on any web page in the client by right-clicking on the page and selecting "Copy Page URL."

Also, the URL bar does show up in the overlay web browser and the html popup windows that you may occasionally see. It's simply not on the main client.

I'm going to hold off on adding this right away just because I don't want to end up with a mess of icons in the top-right of the client. You can access the friends list through the main menu which also has your online/offline/busy/away status checkboxes (these were moved from the friends list menu due to the annoying checkbox bug that was in Air Classic).

I feel that this is a relatively reasonable compromise in functionality and design. It adds one extra click to open the friends list, but I also don't think that's too much to ask.

This is particularly an issue with the friends list. There is a very small area that you can grab to move the window and a lot of times search gets in the way. There's not too much I can do about this other than not having the search bar displayed on the top bar. I didn't feel that adding an extra bar of vertical space was worth it compared to the current downsides.

I do plan on making the entire blue area at the top grabbable instead of just the top 50 pixels (if possible) which should help negate the issue.

The purpose of the download notification is to let you know when something is being downloaded. If you want more information, click the notification.

I don't plan on adding a forward button, it's usefulness is limited to a few very rare cases and I don't feel that it's necessary. This is mostly due to the fact that you can browse almost anywhere in the Steam client universe in one or two clicks from one of the dropdown menus. It's not as important go back and forth to your previous pages when you have a direct link to almost anywhere you could want to be.

I don't have plans to bring back the square avatars. You can always use the ones from Air Classic though.

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Whew, I think that's it for now. Let me know if I missed anything. These topics are definitely open for discussion, so please don't hesitate to share your thoughts.

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Oh, if you didn't read the previous announcement yet, it should answer some of your more pressing questions.

It appears that today is the day. I had to chuckle when I realized that Air's anniversary was on Halloween, too perfect!

On to a few conversation points before we start though:

The new Air is a complete redesign from the original Air. Some of you may or may not like all of the changes, and that is OK. Design is a very subjective topic and I can only create what I enjoy. That said, I hope you'll at least give it a shot!

If you would prefer to keep using Air Classic, it will continue to be available via deviantArt: http://fav.me/d84qq7m

Air will continue to be called Air. The previous version of Air will be re-dubbed as "Classic."

This is the new official Steam Group for Air. Thanks for joining!

Right now I am only supporting vanilla Air. This means that all the options and tweaks that you guys have become accoustomed to in the past will not be available with the new Air. I will have a larger and more detailed post on this soon.

I'm sure I'm forgetting other important topics, so please feel free to ask questions and leave comments!

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