Bug: Border radius has infected VSCode editor

(github.com)

58 points | by 2Ucoder 2 hours ago

10 comments

  • antfarm 0 minutes ago
    Round Rects Are Everywhere! Author: Andy Hertzfeld Date: May 1981

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

  • myfonj 15 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 1 hour 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.

    • imnotr0b0t 1 hour ago
      It definitely feels that way
    • 2Ucoder 1 hour ago
      I would call it more of a stain on your career when you use border radius like this.
      • klodolph 18 minutes ago
        A stain is a kind of mark :)
  • ramijames 16 minutes ago
    It looks.. fine? I don't understand why people have to complain about every little thing.
  • msephton 1 hour ago
    I came for screenshots and there are none, nor are there in the linked issue this is marked a duplicate of.
  • 2Ucoder 1 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 1 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 28 minutes ago
        Phew, thank you, their sentence was utterly incomprehensible without your correction. I couldn't possibly have guessed what they meant. Thanks.
  • RonanSoleste 1 hour ago
    I stopped using vscode because of their ui a long time ago and went to zed. Never going back.
    • sp1nningaway 5 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.
    • 2Ucoder 1 hour ago
      Honestly it is probably time I start using Vim.
      • RonanSoleste 42 minutes ago
        Vim is great. But Zed is more like VSCode in usage. And more lightweight too. Not as lightweight as vim tho :)
    • ivanmontillam 56 minutes ago
      This feels like the effective death of VSCode.
      • afavour 40 minutes ago
        I want to believe this post is sarcastic. But sadly you just can’t be sure…
  • amelius 23 minutes ago
    Can't some company just patent those rounded corners?
  • antfarm 25 minutes ago

      "workbench.experimental.modernUI": false,
  • hmokiguess 29 minutes ago
    Tangential: who's still using VSCode in 2026?