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Re: Visual Studio 2012 RC Available Now

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Post by CamperBob2 »

aninteger wrote: post #8
crisnoble wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I will eat my words. Found this too: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2012/05/29/visu... I actually quite like the darkness.

Looks like this is shaping up to be the "Maddox Visual Studio, the best Visual Studio on the internet". Capital letters, black backgrounds, now we just need insulting error messages full of manliness.

I might be OK with the ALL CAPS menu titles if I understood the rationale behind them. Has this been discussed officially anywhere?

Because if not, I can't get beyond the nagging idea that MS is playing some kind of joke that I don't get, and that's a distraction that I don't need.

Re: Visual Studio 2012 RC Available Now

#12

Post by atesti »

Why is it so hard to keep some of the "theming" technology in the product and give us a checkbox to renable the old, usable and beautiful design?

I think I'll pass on this version. Heck, even VS2008 has everything I need right now.

Re: Visual Studio 2012 RC Available Now

#13

Post by bjg »

cowkingdeluxe wrote: post #9
jaredsohn wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

eCa beat me to posting this. Also, here are screenshots of the dark theme: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2012/05/29/visu...

Interesting, those colors are pretty similar to my custom VS2010 theme: http://i.imgur.com/bLOxQ.png Although in VS2010 as far as I know you can't change the colors of the explorer menus and such, but it appears in those new screenshots that you can in VS2012.

Not sure what you meant by the "Explorer menus and such" But the chrome is theme-able.

http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/20cd93a2-c435-...

Re: Visual Studio 2012 RC Available Now

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Post by apike »

eCa wrote: post #4
crisnoble wrote: post #2

I clicked around for quite some time and never found anything resembling screenshot. Do they really require me to download and install just to see how the app looks? Maybe I'm missing something, or maybe I am naive for wanting a screenshot. Either way I probably will never find out what it looks like...

A click away is this comparison with the beta: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2012/05/08/visu...

I find it strange that they've moved to all-caps for menu titles (FILE, EDIT, VIEW...), especially considering Microsoft's recent uses of good typography.

All-caps is a tradeoff where you take away the identifiable shape of a word to make it draw more attention. You could argue that menu titles would be the absolute worst place to use all-caps.

Re: Visual Studio 2012 RC Available Now

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Post by [deleted] »

CamperBob2 wrote: post #11
aninteger wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks like this is shaping up to be the "Maddox Visual Studio, the best Visual Studio on the internet". Capital letters, black backgrounds, now we just need insulting error messages full of manliness.

I might be OK with the ALL CAPS menu titles if I understood the rationale behind them. Has this been discussed officially anywhere? Because if not, I can't get beyond the nagging idea that MS is playing some kind of joke that I don't get, and that's a distraction that I don't need.

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Re: Visual Studio 2012 RC Available Now

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Post by cpeterso »

apike wrote: post #18
eCa wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A click away is this comparison with the beta: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2012/05/08/visu...

I find it strange that they've moved to all-caps for menu titles (FILE, EDIT, VIEW...), especially considering Microsoft's recent uses of good typography. All-caps is a tradeoff where you take away the identifiable shape of a word to make it draw more attention. You could argue that menu titles would be the absolute worst place to use all-caps.

The ALL CAPS MENU TITLES are supposedly "more Metro-like", even though many Metro screenshots are all-lowercase and the Metro motto is "content before chrome."

I'm surprised Microsoft hasn't made their menu titles disappear until you move the mouse near them (like Mac OS X's X-+ window buttons). That sounds like the "hide the UI so it looks good but is less usable" style Microsoft likes.

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