I really love this update! Interesting and useful
Our plan is to revisit plugin workflow and capabilities later next year. A part of that is thinking through what parts of the UI we can provide API/hooks for including menus and context menu. Another angle would be allowing the end user customize their menus like we’re doing here with tabs. So a plugin could expose one or more menu options and the user could be asked if they want to activate them now or later.
So yeah… certainly possible! But our near term focus is getting the Next Gen UI whipped into shape and out of Beta before next summer.
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I’m never updating studio again. This new UI is horrendous.
I think there are several steps in the right direction in this update, but I cant help but find the new top bar extremely clunky. The point of the top bar is to be functional, not aesthetically pleasing. This rearrangement is especially noticeable on smaller screens.
Here are the issues I take with it:
- The new tabs, home, model. avatar, etc are significantly thicker than they previously were, and they have been shifted down to make space for buttons that were never previously needed.
- The new menu is significantly thicker when opened.
- The new menu does not automatically collapse when I am finished with it.
- There is less information in a larger space, which is a step in the wrong direction IMO.
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Roblox studio is a development program. It doesn’t have to look streamlined, my main issue is the new level of context menus. I really think that the new top bar is unnecessary and takes up more screen space than it has to, it’s pretty but it simply isn’t functional. Please take this into consideration while you further develop this. There’s simply so much white space that could be reclaimed to make the bar easier to manage.
Please keep this optional, or let me collapse the top bar, to the same or similar degree as I always could.
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You’ve probably already answered this somewhere but, will it be possible to edit the default/built in tabs? If so would there be a reset to default option?
I found this online and I wonder if you guys have looked at this before. Would that be suitable for use in the Studio UI?
https://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/iup/
Suspicious … does not open… but pretends like it’s loading still.
why would they do that they are moving away from something thats frequently used to make native-like UI (Qt) in favor of react for some reason
Try double clicking the tabs 
There’s also a right click context menu for additional options. Unfortunately the current version is a little clunky as we don’t “float” the toolbar and auto hide it when you mouse away. We’ve got a version of that in the works coming soon.
As far as general layout/padding, we still have not done a heavy styling pass since we initially launched the Beta. We are working with our design teams to get design system compliant grid and padding values.
We are painfully aware the community values efficient use of space. Interestingly, if you do a pixel-to-pixel comparison between old and new, it’s not that much taller. I feel confident we can make up for that difference once we do styling updates.
We are also exploring the idea of tucking the menus up in the title bar. But that’s a ton of work we weren’t planning for so not sure when we’ll get that in.
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Yes. At a minimum, you’ll be able to hide and re-order the built-in tabs. You should also be able to duplicate a built-in plugin and customize it to your preferences.
Thank you for the reply. I’m glad to hear that consideration of smaller screens is a thought in mind with the redesign. I think auto collapsing will make a large difference within the workflow, especially considering that was the bulk of the extra space taken up. Sidenote: when you double click the menu now, the entire studio flashes to remove the bar, but I would assume the auto-collapsing build doesn’t have this. I did consider the possibility that it simply wasn’t implemented yet, but I wanted to express it and make sure it wasnt a feature which was left out as it’s very important on smaller screens.
As for the redesign of the tabs, I’m still a bit iffy on the change. Historically I don’t recall any time which I’ve needed a function which the new tippy-top-bar ™ provides which I couldn’t find a keybind for. While the new flow of the drop down menus seems pretty good, I couldn’t imagine I would adapt to use them now. I imagine that the new tippy-top-bar ™ is too cemented to change, but I would like if there was a way for us to condense the test buttons and orientations back into the tippy-top-bar ™ so that the script editor/workspace tabs list could at least be moved up a level when the menu isnt expanded, but I’m not a UI designer. You guys are the experts, keep us in your hearts and try to spare my 16:10 display. Thank you for listening to feedback 
Yes that’s correct. The updated autohide behavior has the toolbar “float” within the Studio window so it doesn’t cause a layout refresh like the current version.
Thank you for the notes!
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