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> It has been created to reduce visual complexity, provide easy access to essential features, and progressively disclose complex functionality as needed – resul
by lopkeny12ko 4y ago
> It has been created to reduce visual complexity, provide easy access to essential features, and progressively disclose complex functionality as needed – resulting in a cleaner look and feel.
Please, Jetbrains, and everyone else out there, I beg you, please stop shipping these redesigned UIs that look prettier but are infinitely times less functional and reduce information density by orders of magnitude. Especially for something like an IDE, with a huge base of power users--all this serves is dumbing down software when the vast majority of your users want the exact opposite.
- vladvasiliu 4y agoAgree. And this feels all the more useless that they already had a "low-distraction" mode for a while.
- beached_whale 4y agoThey are trying this with Clion and the toolchain/target interface that works well now. They hid all the targets and one needs more clicks to chose a new one because it became an MRU list. The splitting of the two was nice, but give me all my targets so I can get my work done. The two dropdowns didn’t hurt though, it was always two clicks, but now you can more easily see what toolchain is in use.
- yosef123 4y agoI don't mind the changes
- lopkeny12ko 4y agoAnd that's fine! But why do software vendors feel the need to shove a new design down everyone's throat, even for those who don't want or care for it? As far as I can tell, there is an option to opt out of the new UI, but I won't bank on it lasting long.
- Mr3zee 4y agoI guess because it is too hard to support two very complex and different UIs