Bug: Border radius has infected VSCode editor (github.com)

60 pointsby 2Ucoder3 hours ago33 comments

myfonj 26 minutes ago

Rounded corners and pill-shaped buttons really infest UI everywhere, and I never understood what kind of ergonomics they are supposed to improve.

And fighting them is increasingly difficult, but at least somewhat possible:

- VSC luckily still supports

    workbench.experimental.modernUI

we can turn off; and if they will be marginally clever, it will remain there indefinitely.

On the web, we can use userstyles sharpening most dulled corners [1]. And if you happen to have seen upcoming Firefox skin, it is also pill addict's fewer dream. We can use userChrome.css, but web components are making it very cumbersome and fragile, basically constantly adding new custom properties, being glad they are really used [2]. But I digress. I really look forward for this pill mania to wear off, like wet floors, glitters, and similar fads.

[1] https://userstyles.world/style/8283/

[2] https://gist.github.com/myfonj/f5415dd0580663a82ea18407ef2ee...

misnome 2 hours ago

Lots of unnecessary whitespace, tabs changing colour to be confusing about which is selected…

They hired a new design lead who wants to make their mark, didn't they.

2Ucoder 2 hours ago

I would call it more of a stain on your career when you use border radius like this.

klodolph 29 minutes ago

A stain is a kind of mark :)

imnotr0b0t an hour ago

It definitely feels that way

ramijames 27 minutes ago

It looks.. fine? I don't understand why people have to complain about every little thing.

antfarm 12 minutes ago

Round Rects Are Everywhere! (Andy Hertzfeld, 1981)

https://www.folklore.org/Round_Rects_Are_Everywhere.html

msephton an hour ago

I came for screenshots and there are none, nor are there in the linked issue this is marked a duplicate of.

dadoum an hour ago

https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_129#_modern-ui-prev...

At the end of that video you can see the modern UI preview.

jasonlotito an hour ago

Sorry! It seems the page can't be found

verdverm an hour ago

they seem to have a lot of broken pages, like the changelog :facepalm:

https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_139

Internally, these companies are the real slopocolypse

kps an hour ago

Sorry! It seems the page can't be found

2Ucoder an hour ago

Screen shots? Just open the app, it is glaring with border radius.

jasonlotito an hour ago

You want them to install an app and then open it just to see images? That's crazy.

kps an hour ago

> Just open the app

I'd prefer not to.

dvh an hour ago

Waterluvian's Law:

> The more an article would benefit from photos, the less likely it’ll have them.

imafish an hour ago

He says to open VSCode

layer8 an hour ago

The following issue has a good number of screenshots in various comments: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/325240?timeline_p...

2Ucoder an hour ago

A gluttonous heaping dollop of border radius has been added to my favorite code editor. It is effecting my coding productivity, as the change is quite harmful to the eyes. The designers have been plaguing the web with this exponentially. It was only a matter of time before it spread to desktop electron apps. That time has come now, I have reported this visual bug to VScode.

bigstrat2003 an hour ago

> It is effecting my coding productivity, as the change is quite harmful to the eyes.

You probably mean "affecting". As a verb, "effect" means "to put into effect" or sometimes "to make more effective". Somehow I don't get the sense you meant either of those.

pyridines 40 minutes ago

Phew, thank you, their sentence was utterly incomprehensible without your correction. I couldn't possibly have guessed what they meant. Thanks.

GlacierFox 7 minutes ago

Some people really get sour when others politely point out grammatical mistakes they've made on a written forum. It's understandable as some people don't really do it tactfully and it can come across abrasive. Then there's a special kind of person who gets sour and snarky over someone politely pointing out grammatical mistakes other people have made.

amelius 34 minutes ago

Can't some company just patent those rounded corners?

antfarm 36 minutes ago

  "workbench.experimental.modernUI": false,

RonanSoleste 2 hours ago

I stopped using vscode because of their ui a long time ago and went to zed. Never going back.

2Ucoder an hour ago

Honestly it is probably time I start using Vim.

RonanSoleste an hour ago

Vim is great. But Zed is more like VSCode in usage. And more lightweight too. Not as lightweight as vim tho :)

gerdesj 9 minutes ago

I had to traverse two symlinks to find it but the vim binary is 4.4MB in size here. It does link 13 libs including the mighty standard C library at 2.1MB.

I suppose I could crank out the compiler and create a stripped static binary for it. Nope, bugger that, I'll drink more wine instead.

My Commodore 64 is glaring at me 8)

ivanmontillam an hour ago

This feels like the effective death of VSCode.

afavour an hour ago

I want to believe this post is sarcastic. But sadly you just can’t be sure…

sp1nningaway 16 minutes ago

I fired up VSCode for the first time in months because I thought it would be a good tool to introduce a friend to LLM-assisted coding. I was so totally overwhelmed by the interface (after using VSCode every day for years!) that I gave up. I've gotten to used to the visual simplicity of Zed + terminal, or often just a terminal.

hmokiguess 41 minutes ago

Tangential: who's still using VSCode in 2026?