Releases
We’re glad to announce that we are going to allow the new UI for all JetBrains IDE customers within the upcoming 2024.2 model. We designed the brand new UI to scale back visible litter, making certain quick access to important options whereas steadily revealing extra superior performance as wanted. The brand new UI is clear and fashionable, offering larger, easier-to-use controls, a constant coloration palette, gentle and legible icons, elevated distinction, and higher accents.
Work on the brand new UI started in 2021. We analyzed the problems with the outdated UI, fastidiously labored on options, launched preview and Beta variations, gathered suggestions, and performed over 10 UX research.
There was plenty of optimistic suggestions from our customers:
The brand new IntelliJ UI is so good. Minimalistic, fashionable, and nonetheless highly effective, good job @jetbrains!
Wow, @WebStormIDE @jetbrains New UI is AWESOME, it appears very recent.
I’ve been utilizing it for just a few weeks and I completely find it irresistible. The tiny interface components within the outdated UI actually felt misplaced in fashionable desktop environments.
I’ve been utilizing it for a number of weeks now with IntelliJ Final, and I completely find it irresistible. I used to be afraid it was too minimal once I first began utilizing it (I even went again to the “outdated look” for a short time), however after just a few days, I noticed every little thing I wanted was nonetheless proper the place I wanted it (and once I wanted it), and all I’ve misplaced is the distractions. The whole lot works, and the appear and feel is recent, responsive and (okay, I’ll say it) fashionable.
In fact, there was additionally damaging suggestions, and it significantly helped us make the brand new UI higher – we mounted greater than 2,000 bugs and made quite a few enhancements. For instance, we added a compact mode, eliminated the brilliant blue Run button from the toolbar, added the power to simply customise the primary toolbar, added an choice to allow device window names, and polished coloration themes.
For extra details about the primary adjustments within the new UI, see the documentation. For recognized points and future plans, see the Data Base.
At the moment, 87% of our customers have adopted the brand new UI, regardless of it not being the default possibility for present customers.
How lengthy will we proceed to help the outdated UI?
The basic UI is obtainable as a plugin in JetBrains Market. Beginning with the 2024.2 model, you will note a popup with the hyperlink to the plugin, or you could find the plugin in Settings | Plugins.
We plan to help the plugin for no less than one 12 months, which suggests that we are going to take a look at and launch it with each main IDE launch. We are going to consider the brand new UI adoption fee and suggestions, and based mostly on this data, we’ll resolve how lengthy we’ll proceed to help the basic UI.
Sadly, the Traditional UI plugin gained’t work accurately with Gateway and when working the IDEs remotely.
Assets
We printed the Int UI Equipment and Icons pack for the brand new UI. At the moment, we’re updating the UI Pointers to consult with the brand new UI.
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