> - Homogenization. JetBrains wants to be like VSCode
> - Animations. Haven't seen them but it will be filled
Seriously, HN? This is the quality that you reward with hundreds of points? Unlike the author, I happen to have used this UI for the past five months and it solves many of my longstanding gripes with IntelliJ:
- Gutters are now much better at highlighting local changes, while also being less visually obtrusive.
- The shaded tool window background nicely separates them from the editor
- Showing the git branch next to the title makes it so much easier to understand where I am, when I work with multiple projects and branches.
- Breadcrumbs in the Statusbar save some space and look much cleaner
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Also, many of the complaints that I've seen in this thread are either wrong or exaggerated:
- "Monochrome icons" - Only the toolbar icons are monochrome, everything else still uses coloured icons.
- "The toolbar has less icons now" - It's customisable, you can put whatever you want in there. Yes, with colourful icons.
- "More Whitespace" - The vertical space from the top of the screen to the editor is the exact same. The Project view actually looses some vertical space, but only because the font size is bigger (Which you can change obviously). The spacing between the list items is the same according to a designer on Slack.
- "This is just some incompetent designer pushing their agenda on us, breaking my workflow because something something trends" - go touch grass.
And finally, just to be clear: no, there are no animations - everything is instant.