I genuinely just like the old UI/layout and haven’t had an issue in all the years of it being around, the new layout just moves stuff around into places that don’t make sense, and has too much wasted space is larger even with the collapse feature being added back.
The old layout was clear, easy to pick up nothing was wasting space if it didn’t need to, you could collapse the whole ribbon to 10x less space than this new layout offers the old is genuinely just better. Yes, some people like it and that’s fine thats their personal opinion but this change affects those that personally do not like this change which is why many are being vocal about it including myself while also understanding the benefits stated.
I understand that this new layout is completely recoded removing redundant code and old code left from the years but this could’ve been done with a recode but the layout remaining the same with changes that were absolutely necessary for whatever reason they may need changing. I respect the time taken by the people who created this new redesign but this is what happens when a such a heavily used and high traffic UI/layout is so drastically changed messing with muscle memory and years spent navigating with it.
I’m a fan of the design, but it really is too different, it’s gonna take a while to get used to the new layout and figuring out how everything works. Currently, I’m really annoyed by how tooltips stay on top of everything and often stick onto the screen, same with the ribbon when undocked and showing.
One thing that annoys me is the new selection of windows, as when you want to open multiple windows at the same time, you always got to reopen the window dropdown to enable/disable the next one. Same with the wireframe rendering for example, if I just quickly wanna switch between wireframe enabled and disabled, I always got to reopen the menu again.
It would be great if the menu stays open, when you keep hovering with your cursor over it, to be able to make multiple changes.
Another thing that bothers me is, that you always have to open the cascading menu for plugins that only have one singular button, instead of just being able to click on the main button, that opens the cascading menu, directly.
Other than that, I really like the new much more modern design and will look forward to future updates to it!
This would be a HUGE update honestly! I would love to see it. I’m really not a fan of the spacing…
I’m sure that the spacing alone would just improve the entire interface for me, and it’s kind of the reason I haven’t been able to get too comfortable with the new studio interface.
Disabling the next-gen Studio built-in plugin and enabling the beta makes the ribbon bar disappear completely. This is AWESOME and I recommend that EVERYONE do this to get a streamlined, uncluttered Studio experience. I’m so glad to see the real menu bar again. There’s 45 pixels between the viewport and the top of the screen in fullscreen mode or 56 in windowed mode/with the title bar. I don’t know which built-in plugin is responsible for this (so I can’t tell you which plugin you need to delete/move out of the folder) because I disable everything but certain plugins in a whitelist, but DO THIS NOW! Excuse me, I have to disable the Explorer beta now.
Whoops the user switcher is gone, could it be added to the native menu please
Alt focuses the menu (this is common and expected menu bar behavior), which it didn’t do before IIRC. I just tried removing the menu with a tool of mine that can detach Windows menu bars, but it didn’t budge so it must be a Qt widget.
Correct. The first two “compact” designs we’ve gotten from our design team do not alter the icon size to start. It’s not worth explaining in detail but supporting additional icon sizes has all sorts of considerations — not that we won’t do it but it can’t happen as quickly as just tuning the spacing/padding.
Correct. And selecting/deselecting UI doesn’t make the UI tab disappear. In a world of custom tabs, you may have a scripting tab you like better than ours. So how annoying would it be if we kept switching to the default Script tab?
That said, we are thinking forward about contextual preferences where we can have the best of both worlds (you specify what you want Studio to do when you select a Script tab). But there’s more foundational work required to get there.
Menu icons are a little trickier now that we support native menus on macOS. But not impossible so we may revisit.
Yes those more complex controls aren’t yet supported in Add Tools. The workaround for now is to duplicate the tab that does contain those controls and edit it from there. Tiny grid of icons is also sort of a complex control but it’s a request we’ve heard.
Could we maybe get the ability to set events? Like in our custom tabs we can set an event like “script opened” or something like that? It’s probably a weird suggestion, it’s just something I came up with.
Yeah something like that is what I’m thinking. We’ve got a mountain of work before we get to that point. But the good news is we are working in that general direction.
