What makes me concerned is the way Steam needs both Access for Assistive Devices, and my password to run for the first time. I'd go comb this hairy mess and find out where stuff is, when and if I need to, even if it's in an unfamiliar place that does not actually tick me off. I'd describe myself as a bit OCD (which really says a lot), and I wouldn't care that much still. For this to happen (all of this is saved inside the bundle, the app bundle gets updated in this process) Steam wants Universal Access for Assistive Devices, and your password.Ĭacheable resources, preferences (like keyboard shortcuts), support files (like game hardware requirement lookup tables) live inside the bundle, not in ~/Library/ games' data get dumped into ~/Documents/Steam Content. Inside the app bundle there is a script that-upon inspecting the environment and deciding you're not running Linux-launches the client, which downloads the full support environment and resources. When you download the client it does not weigh too much, and seems to do very little.

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