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> There is so much more room. I don’t understand what’s being gained in some cases. For example, their UIs used to have sideways buttons with icons and labels
by donmcronald 3y ago
> There is so much more room.
I don’t understand what’s being gained in some cases. For example, their UIs used to have sideways buttons with icons and labels in the gutters on the left and right. Now it’s icons only and a bunch of blank space. I don’t get any extra usable space and now I have to memorize a new set of icons and remember what they do.
What’s behind the hamburger menu in the left gutter and why can’t it be made directly accessible as icons in all that free space?
All of it reminds me of the versions of Chrome where the “show all downloads” action on the downloads page was by itself under a hamburger menu while the row in the UI was basically blank.
- paddim8 3y agoI greatly prefer the new UI. Vertical text is annoying to read so you'd end up memorizing it anyway and it makes it more cluttered, which is the last thing I want when I want to focus on the code. Clickable areas were also much smaller, which meant you'd have to be more precise with the mouse, which is quite annoying.
- nirimda 3y agoYeah I feel exactly the same as you. I prefer JetBrains to VSCode because it gives me labelled icons and menus for the things I want to do. It's true, for the things I don't do often sometimes I have to search a busy menu, but that compares with trying to remember what the name of the command might be in the VSCode command panel, so it seems a lot more user-friendly. Do people actually like being confused? Do people like having to use Google to find out what words to type to use their software?
- xupybd 3y agoI come from vim, notepad++, and sublime text. I love seeing lots of code at once. I want to see as much context around the code as possible. Admittedly when I'm at home on my bigger screens I don't value space as much as I do on my small work screens.