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That was not my intention, I genuinely have sincere empathy (I used the wrong word, my bad) for people that are negatively affected by these changes. I know wha
by doix 4y ago
That was not my intention, I genuinely have sincere empathy (I used the wrong word, my bad) for people that are negatively affected by these changes. I know what it's like, I've been bitten by similar things many times in the past and know how annoying it is.
> Change doesn't suck; it's change for the worse that sucks.
That's clearly subjective though, it's worse for you. For other people it's better. It sucks when you're on the wrong side of a change, that was my point. Personally, the old UI and the new UI don't solve the problems I have with JetBrains IDEs, so I'm fairly indifferent.
I should have said that I empathize instead of sympathize though. Words are hard, but I definitely wasn't trying to be patronising.
- kstenerud 4y agoI believe you. But I also believe that this change was made based on a false dichotomy of mouse vs keyboard. By removing most of the mouse-accessible components, they saved a few pixels on the X and Y at best, at the cost of completely alienating all of their mouse users. They could have simply improved their keyboard support while still maintaining the small band of toolbars. It would have been effectively the same result for keyboard folks without the hostile change imposed on mouse folks.