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I'm normally cynical bastard resistant to change. But Jetbrains new IDE styling is really good. I use it in WebStorm everyday and see no reason to move back to
by tnolet 3y ago
I'm normally cynical bastard resistant to change. But Jetbrains new IDE styling is really good. I use it in WebStorm everyday and see no reason to move back to the old UI. Kudos Jetbrains.
- ivanjermakov 3y agoI found for myself that "compact" version of the new UI is not compact enough. And the only way around this is to reduce IDE's font size, which worsens readability.
- simfoo 3y agoSame here, if your "compact" mode is way less compact than what you had before you're doing it wrong Jetbrains. Information density is key when developing
- tnolet 3y agofor me it strikes the right balance between enough "white space" and density. E.g. VS code is not dense enough for me.
- wwilim 3y agoVSCode's file explorer tree is way too dense, though, the indents are not big enough by default
- corytheboyd 3y agoI don’t get the extreme hate around here for new UI. I turned it on just to see and felt nothing really changed. Maybe it’s because I almost exclusively use keyboard shortcuts? I can already feel the angry replies being smashed into keyboards…
- devmor 3y ago> Maybe it’s because I almost exclusively use keyboard shortcuts? That's a reasonable suspicion, since my biggest gripe with the new UI is how it hides clear, text-based menus and labels behind more confusing icons.
- corytheboyd 3y agoWas there something in particular that you used often that was moved behind a confusing icon? I don’t really find myself digging through these menus often, instead using the action search for things I don’t know/map the keyboard shortcut to.
- devmor 3y agoYes, I genuinely just use the menus for anything I don't use often enough to map a keyboard shortcut to. I find search dialogues to be annoying and counter to building intuitive memory for using an application. They're a "last resort" to me when the UI of a program is poorly made.
- corytheboyd 3y agoMakes sense! Don’t mean to do that annoying internet thing where I am saying you are wrong and I am right, just curious to hear more specifics about it, thanks!
- devmor 3y agoNah I get you. I think it’s just a personal mind difference thing. Some people intuit functionality verbally and I imagine that the action search is probably preferable to them. I tend to intuit functionality physically so I am often annoyed by layout changes.