I absolutely love the new UI. The only thing I want to change is reduce the font sizes by 1 or 2 sizes then it would be perfect for me.
Dear JetBrains, Don't mess with your UI
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Re: Dear JetBrains, Don't mess with your UI
#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’ve used gmail pretty much since day 1, but I can’t recall any of the previous interfaces. What were the good features of previous ones?
At the bottom of this guide there are two links to switch from the current state-of-the-art design to the "basic HTML" version, and back, should you regret it: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/15049?hl=en The "basic HTML" version is probably not exactly as any previous version but it's a good approximation. I think it makes much better use of color and space, and the buttons have text labels instead of using an…
You can switch the gmail UI buttons to be text labels.
Re: Dear JetBrains, Don't mess with your UI
#173Sorry, it’s all my fault. I’ve resisted using their software for years, despite the praise, but I recently decided I would become a customer and switch to their software. Unfortunately this means they are now obligated by whatever has gone wrong with the world of software the past few years to ruin anything that was good about it.
Re: Dear JetBrains, Don't mess with your UI
#174Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Forget what VSCode is doing. Except for remote development extension. Do that. It's the killer feature of VSCode.
They do that, I’m playing with it now. Have a look at Jetbrains Gateway: https://www.jetbrains.com/remote-development/gateway/
I tried out fleet last night and it worked amazingly well.
Re: Dear JetBrains, Don't mess with your UI
#175Seriously! Their slick, compact, and beautifully well laid out UI is one of the primary reasons I use I Intellij Idea. If they force this update, I'll just not update it. Not to mention, since I now will not be updating it, I can cancel my yearly, recurring subscription too. Hey Jetbrains: You just have to do one thing. And that is: to NOT mess up existing thing. Even if you stop launching new features into your prod…
On the flip side, the only thing I want Jetbrains to do is implement proper UI scaling. I want to be able to hit Command+Plus and scale up the whole interface for presenting something to the team or when I have to code pair with someone who doesn't have as large of a monitor as I do. Presentation mode is an absolute mess, and does not help with code pairing or code review presentations, and font scaling only affects…
I would not like Command-Plus, as in most cases you want to increase the font size of the editor, not everything around it. Then it would work like a web app or an Electron app, which is not ideal for pro apps. But I think you do have some good points around the presentation mode.
Re: Dear JetBrains, Don't mess with your UI
#176Seriously! Their slick, compact, and beautifully well laid out UI is one of the primary reasons I use I Intellij Idea. If they force this update, I'll just not update it. Not to mention, since I now will not be updating it, I can cancel my yearly, recurring subscription too. Hey Jetbrains: You just have to do one thing. And that is: to NOT mess up existing thing. Even if you stop launching new features into your prod…
> Forget what VSCode is doing. Except for remote development extension. Do that. It's the killer feature of VSCode.
Why would one do remote development with laptops being as powerful as they are today (think: the raw power of an M1 Mac Book Air even).
Re: Dear JetBrains, Don't mess with your UI
#177Yes, vim + a couple of plugins. It has it’s downsides, but one thing it does well is being familiar, and never breaking a contract. Even the plugins themselves can be pinned to a certain version.
How is the vim + python experience, especially with the debugger?
Re: Dear JetBrains, Don't mess with your UI
#178Eh, I have used vim, spacemacs, sublime, vscode, atom, eclipse and netbeans. Jetbrains IDEs have superior functionality out of the box across languages and don’t require me to mess with and debug a million plugins. I don’t mind a UI refresh, it’s going to be just like the gmail refresh everyone hated it and now we’re all fine with it. I just wish they would invest more money into things that are actually a problem cu…
Try to debug JNI code in Jetbrains IDEs, go try it. Ah, I forgot they rather sell a Clion license instead. Or stop the damm thing to run indexing, or avoid doing 10 finger combos, showing code problems without running inspections, doing Java compilation on save without using Eclipse's own compiler,...
> showing code problems without running inspections
You can configure which inspections are run all the time and which are not
> doing Java compilation on save without using Eclipse's own compiler If you are saving files with Intellij. Configure Intellij to save when focus is lost. I haven't pressed Ctrl-S in 15 years in Intellij. Regarding the automatic compiling whenever you save, like in Eclipse. I am really happy it doesn't do this. Because it means I can work slow compiling projects at all. I can work with refactoring features while my code is in the middle of larger refactoring and it doesn't compile. And so on. But if you prefer Eclipse's workflow, why not use Eclipse?
Re: Dear JetBrains, Don't mess with your UI
#179Eh, I have used vim, spacemacs, sublime, vscode, atom, eclipse and netbeans. Jetbrains IDEs have superior functionality out of the box across languages and don’t require me to mess with and debug a million plugins. I don’t mind a UI refresh, it’s going to be just like the gmail refresh everyone hated it and now we’re all fine with it. I just wish they would invest more money into things that are actually a problem cu…
Switch branches? Let's index it all again! Working on a Rust project? Let's index the Go stdlib. It'll be ready in 10-20 min, please hold. I've been waiting for indexing improvemence for over 10 years, not holding my breath.
IntelliJ reindexes existing jdks and the whole spring ecosystem on my system, daily.
I think their developers have no idea how it works either and just gave up some time after the useless shared indices came out.
Re: Dear JetBrains, Don't mess with your UI
#180Earlier quoted context omitted.
Switch branches? Let's index it all again! Working on a Rust project? Let's index the Go stdlib. It'll be ready in 10-20 min, please hold. I've been waiting for indexing improvemence for over 10 years, not holding my breath.
You want to run a task from your build tool that has nothing to do with indexing before indexing finishes? No can do! You installed an npm package and it seems to depend on all the things? Let's start indexing on node_modules and give you no chance to even uninstall the **er. You used the CLI to work around our tooling? Hey let's start indexing immediately after this one finishes so it's a great idea for a coffee bre…
> so you may actually do some work until we bog down all the cpu cores.
I wish it bogged down all cores.. I work on relatively small Java projects (maybe 10 KLOC, 20 or so items in the pom.xml (although these obviously have transitive dependencies)). IntelliJ 2018 would re-index everything in a few minutes using all 20 vcores. I specifically spent about $8k on an iMac Pro back in the day to make this faster.
IntelliJ 2022, on the other hand, uses only 4 cores, and takes about 10 minutes. That's a stupid default (if I buy a powerful computer I want to use it..).
There is a setting to override it, but in my case it just doesn't work. CPU goes to approx 400% and just stays there. I filed a bug report, no movement.