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myfonj 1 hours ago [-]
Rounded corners and pill-shaped buttons really infest UI everywhere, and I never understood what kind of ergonomics they are supposed to improve.
And fighting them is increasingly difficult, but at least somewhat possible:
- VSC luckily still supports
workbench.experimental.modernUI
we can turn off; and if they will be marginally clever, it will remain there indefinitely.
On the web, we can use userstyles sharpening most dulled corners [1]. And if you happen to have seen upcoming Firefox skin, it is also pill addict's fewer dream. We can use userChrome.css, but web components are making it very cumbersome and fragile, basically constantly adding new custom properties, being glad they are really used [2]. But I digress. I really look forward for this pill mania to wear off, like wet floors, glitters, and similar fads.
> I never understood what kind of ergonomics they are supposed to improve.
People like buttons with sharp corners in real things because they are rare and expensive, and buttons with round corners in digital things because they imitate the cheap round buttons that are everywhere.
Now that the round corners have been overused, we may get some fashion of sharp corners again.
nxc18 35 minutes ago [-]
Who else remembers when devs were complaining about flat design and the loss of corner radii, borders, and gradients? Everything old is new again.
At the end of that video you can see the modern UI preview.
godshatter 38 minutes ago [-]
I don't use VS Code, but when I look at the before and after in the video I can hardly tell the difference. I think the "border radius" problem is overwhelmed by the "too much crap on the screen" problem for me to really notice it that much.
jasonlotito 2 hours ago [-]
Sorry!
It seems the page can't be found
verdverm 2 hours ago [-]
they seem to have a lot of broken pages, like the changelog :facepalm:
A gluttonous heaping dollop of border radius has been added to my favorite code editor. It is effecting my coding productivity, as the change is quite harmful to the eyes. The designers have been plaguing the web with this exponentially. It was only a matter of time before it spread to desktop electron apps. That time has come now, I have reported this visual bug to VScode.
sovok 16 minutes ago [-]
I for one am glad not having pointy corners threatening to poke me during usage, that's a matter of safety. And aerodynamics. There's a reason why most cars have rounded shapes, we can learn from that.
bigstrat2003 2 hours ago [-]
> It is effecting my coding productivity, as the change is quite harmful to the eyes.
You probably mean "affecting". As a verb, "effect" means "to put into effect" or sometimes "to make more effective". Somehow I don't get the sense you meant either of those.
pyridines 1 hours ago [-]
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GlacierFox 45 minutes ago [-]
Some people really get sour when others politely point out grammatical mistakes they've made on a written forum. It's understandable as some people don't really do it tactfully and it can come across abrasive.
Then there's a special kind of person who gets sour and snarky over someone politely pointing out grammatical mistakes other people have made.
RonanSoleste 2 hours ago [-]
I stopped using vscode because of their ui a long time ago and went to zed. Never going back.
sp1nningaway 54 minutes ago [-]
I fired up VSCode for the first time in months because I thought it would be a good tool to introduce a friend to LLM-assisted coding. I was so totally overwhelmed by the interface (after using VSCode every day for years!) that I gave up. I've gotten to used to the visual simplicity of Zed + terminal, or often just a terminal.
2Ucoder 2 hours ago [-]
Honestly it is probably time I start using Vim.
RonanSoleste 2 hours ago [-]
Vim is great. But Zed is more like VSCode in usage. And more lightweight too. Not as lightweight as vim tho :)
gerdesj 46 minutes ago [-]
I had to traverse two symlinks to find it but the vim binary is 4.4MB in size here. It does link 13 libs including the mighty standard C library at 2.1MB.
I suppose I could crank out the compiler and create a stripped static binary for it. Nope, bugger that, I'll drink more wine instead.
My Commodore 64 is glaring at me 8)
ivanmontillam 2 hours ago [-]
This feels like the effective death of VSCode.
afavour 1 hours ago [-]
I want to believe this post is sarcastic. But sadly you just can’t be sure…
amelius 1 hours ago [-]
Can't some company just patent those rounded corners?
antfarm 1 hours ago [-]
"workbench.experimental.modernUI": false,
hmokiguess 1 hours ago [-]
Tangential: who's still using VSCode in 2026?
rplnt 10 minutes ago [-]
I started to use VSCode in 2026. Hardware caught up to it so it's not as slow as I remember (still slow, but fine). It's so noisy. Every cursor move highlights half the screen, at least 3 different searches active at the same time, it's a mess. Can't really write (or read) code in it. Using it for copilot.
nxc18 37 minutes ago [-]
Everyone who’s using Cursor, Antigravity, Kiro, or Windsurf, to start. And then of course the millions still using VS Code.
And fighting them is increasingly difficult, but at least somewhat possible:
- VSC luckily still supports
we can turn off; and if they will be marginally clever, it will remain there indefinitely.On the web, we can use userstyles sharpening most dulled corners [1]. And if you happen to have seen upcoming Firefox skin, it is also pill addict's fewer dream. We can use userChrome.css, but web components are making it very cumbersome and fragile, basically constantly adding new custom properties, being glad they are really used [2]. But I digress. I really look forward for this pill mania to wear off, like wet floors, glitters, and similar fads.
[1] https://userstyles.world/style/8283/
[2] https://gist.github.com/myfonj/f5415dd0580663a82ea18407ef2ee...
People like buttons with sharp corners in real things because they are rare and expensive, and buttons with round corners in digital things because they imitate the cheap round buttons that are everywhere.
Now that the round corners have been overused, we may get some fashion of sharp corners again.
P.S. Code is super late to the game on this UI trend. See Slack redesign circa 2023 https://slack.com/blog/productivity/a-redesigned-slack-built...
P.P.S. I can’t believe I forgot jetbrains did it first.
They hired a new design lead who wants to make their mark, didn't they.
> The more an article would benefit from photos, the less likely it’ll have them.
At the end of that video you can see the modern UI preview.
https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_139
Internally, these companies are the real slopocolypse
I'd prefer not to.
https://www.folklore.org/Round_Rects_Are_Everywhere.html
You probably mean "affecting". As a verb, "effect" means "to put into effect" or sometimes "to make more effective". Somehow I don't get the sense you meant either of those.
I suppose I could crank out the compiler and create a stripped static binary for it. Nope, bugger that, I'll drink more wine instead.
My Commodore 64 is glaring at me 8)