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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 the old UI. Kudos Jetbrains.

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I 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.

Same 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

for me it strikes the right balance between enough "white space" and density. E.g. VS code is not dense enough for me.

VSCode's file explorer tree is way too dense, though, the indents are not big enough by default

I 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…

> 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.

Was 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.

Yes, 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.

Makes 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!

Nah 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.

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