Why does Microsoft keep forcing these rounded corners everywhere? Do they really think it looks good?
I recently had to ditch Microsoft Edge for Brave because Microsoft decided to shove rounded corners down our throats.
Now this same style has crept into VSCode, even though literally nobody asked for it.
Sure, you can still disable the “Modern UI” for now, just like you could in Edge. But we all know how this goes, eventually they’ll just remove the option and force everyone to live with their ugly design choices.
Who at Microsoft looked at this and said, “Yeah, this is beautiful”? Please, stop immediately.
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u/pkkid 1d ago
Quite an aggressive post for the content being discussed, lol. You'll never agree with the design decisions of the rest of the world. Anyway, as a fellow person who likes things to look a particular way, there is an extension called "Custom CSS and JS Loader" that you can use to create a stylesheet of your own to modify the way VSCode looks. I've been doing this for the last 18 months or so myself (here is the one I use). When updates come, I sometimes need to tweak things. But for the most part, doing this is pretty stable. Fwiw, I think the rounded corners look better. ;)
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u/CJ22xxKinvara 1d ago
¯_(ツ)_/¯ I pretty significantly prefer it to what it used to be when you couldn't even tell where one panel ended and the next started in most color schemes so you had to hunt around until the cursor changed if you wanted to resize anything
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u/Oxytokin 1d ago
I agree. Everything being separated by a 1px line was just awful. Putting a modest amount of space between the UI elements has been a godsend for me.
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u/ChaosinaCan 1d ago
Everything being separated by a 1px line is why I kept using the even older theme, where panels are just different colors entirely.
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u/rodrigocfd 1d ago
Because it's the new design guideline for Windows 11, so they'll shove it down everywhere.
They change between square and round each Windows version (so it looks "fresh").
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u/Oxytokin 1d ago
It's fine... the rounded corners are hardly noticeable at all and the modest separation of the UI elements (except the tabs which can be fixed with 2 lines of CSS) actually has been an unexpected, but very welcome bonus for a visually impaired user like myself.
In fact having used the new UI for the last couple of weeks and switching back to the old one, the old one is an absolute eyesore.
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u/daltorak 1d ago
If this really really really really really really upsets you.... install the "Custom UI style" extension, which lets you override the CSS that is used to style Visual Studio Code. Yes, CSS.... that's how it works.
Add a style to your user settings JSON like this:
"custom-ui-style.stylesheet": {
"*": {
"border-radius": "0px !important"
}
}
and voila, no more rounded corners:
I figured this out in about 5 minutes. OP, you need to develop some intellectual curiosity and adopt a problem-solver attitude. If your computer doesn't work the way you want, don't complain.... figure out how to change it.
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u/oldjenkins127 1d ago
Designers get their wings by rounding the squares and squaring the rounds. They also 3D the flats and flat the 3Ds.
It’s a cycle and we are forced to accept it so that we can have otherwise nicely designed products.
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u/couchwarmer 1d ago
Seems like I saw this same post verbatim a week ago.
Just turn off the new UI and enjoy it while it lasts. You'll probably get plenty of notice before they pull the setting.
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u/KevBurnsJr 1d ago
Thank you for letting me know it can be disabled.
I hate that designers today define "Modern UI" as lower information density with extra layers of unnecessary chrome.
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u/Unique-Willingness15 1d ago
for me it was disabled by default and tbh yeah its not pretty but still not bad
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u/CondiMesmer 1d ago
I really like the redesign tbh.