UI Elements In Steam Menu & QAM Can Be Selected By Holding Touch Screen + Option Menu Appears Which Can Lead To Inescapable Behaviour

[NKkrisz]

Your system information

• Steam client version: 1730853027
• SteamOS version: 3.6.20
• Opted into Steam client beta?: No
• Opted into SteamOS beta?: No
• Have you checked for updates in Settings > System?: Yes
• Steam Deck LCD (64GB Black Shield Revision)

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

Pressing / holding on certain UI elements using the touch screen can result in text elements being selected / highlighted alongside with a forward / print menu appearing.

I would expect this to not happen as pressing the print option results in an inescapable situation which needs a forced shutdown and restart to fix (at least that's the only known solution so far, the Deck doesn't seem to react to any inputs in this state).

Additional weird behaviour can be observed with text selections when holding / switching / to another tab in QAM. Text selections also stay in the same place when switching tabs or just closing then returning to the QAM, can't get rid of them when trying to touch it to make them disappear.

Making the UI elements selectable like this just makes the whole experience worse and selecting the text gives only a tiny benefit compared to the issues that it causes.

It seems like this could be a simple JavaScript / CSS issue to fix.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

1. Be In Game Mode / Big Picture Mode
2. Open Steam Menu / QAM
3. Press / Hold on certain UI elements (tabs, sliders, text etc...) using the touch screen
4. See the unintended (?) behaviour happen

Examples:

Holding A Tab In Steam Menu

Holding On A Slider In QAM

Holing On A Button In QAM

Holding On Active Tab In QAM

Switching To / Holding On Non-Active Tab In QAM (Text selection only shows briefly)

Selecting text in QAM, leaving QAM and entering back to QAM

Pressing On Print Option In Menu That Appears After Holding (Inescapable?)

[syberphunk]

I have also experienced this problem.

It'll be because it's actually a web browser and so the pop-up dialogue isn't overridden, or something to that effect.

[NKkrisz]

Holding "Steam" to get trackpad behaviour then right clicking also brings up the print / forward menu which is undesirable.

(Sorry for the multiple title edits)