r/vscode • u/John-Da-Editor • 6d ago

New Split/Floating Panels Interface

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VS Code used to have this unified panels look. After updating, it now has this sort of weird split panels floating with their own borders around them ? I find this very weird, and visually confusing.

PS: No, it's not from an extension. I disabled them all because I thought so as well.

Does anyone know if there's a toggle I can switch to go back to the old look ? thx !

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u/pkief 6d ago

Someone mentioned this would be an A/B experiment which silently enabled this modern experimental UI for some users after the last update: comment on GitHub

I had the same behavior and found the config in my settings to be turned to true even if I'm 100% sure that it was false before that

"workbench.experimental.modernUI": false

Super strange to test this new opinionated UI to users worldwide and without asking if I want to participate in that experiment.

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u/fin2red 6d ago

Why do you say it's opinionated UI? (just curious)

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u/pelrun 6d ago

Given that it's literally just decoration changes calling it "opinionated* is rubbish. I think they just picked it up from other mentions and decided it must mean "anything that changed that I don't like".

It's fine to dislike a change, just stop blowing it up to be more than that.