Bug: Border radius has infected VSCode editor

misnome

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.

RonanSoleste

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

msephton

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

2Ucoder

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.

hmokiguess

Tangential: who's still using VSCode in 2026?

antfarm

"workbench.experimental.modernUI": false,

amelius

Can't some company just patent those rounded corners?

ramijames

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

myfonj

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...

antfarm

Round Rects Are Everywhere! (Andy Hertzfeld, 1981) https://www.folklore.org/Round_Rects_Are_Everywhere.html

nxc18

Who else remembers when devs were complaining about flat design and the loss of corner radii, borders, and gradients? Everything old is new again. P.S. Code is super late to the game on this UI trend. See Slack redesign circa 2023 https://slack.com/blog/productivity/a-redesigned-slack-built... P.P.S. I can’t believe I forgot jetbrains did it first.

rstat1

So it turns I've been using this new UI for a while and didn't even notice it was different nor did I even know they were doing this update until I saw this very thread full of people complaining about it.

renecito

this bug report looks like a teen complaining? I'd definitely love to see all Apps using the current native look and feel. But what is the ask here? straight sharp corners on everything ?

efilife

If they reverted this, it would mean that the people who proposed and implemented this were wrong. They sill never admit defeat, these changes will stay