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I agree with Doug too, somewhat relieved to hear I'm not the only one feeling this pain. I have to say so far v12 has been a bit of a disappointment, I do sense there are some incremental performance gains, but the UI is dreary, all grey and a few muted tones of a dull blue. I'm quite surprised by this as I too have been a very happy customer for many years. I don't usually object to simplification of design look and feel but I reckon you've 'jumped the shark' here. This isn't a web page or mobile app that has to work responsively under very challenging memory and CPU constraints. Taking away all the subtle color cues, borders, gradients and so on makes for a somewhat brutal optical experience, and for no apparent benefit. It's like you wanted to get on the new design (modern/material) bandwagon, maybe for the tablet market, but you then you thought 'hang on this is a serious productivity app - better not have any joyful eye candy'. Visual Studio went through a transformation over recent years and I love its new UI, but there are lots of color cues left in there and, most crucially, I can make my own color scheme for just about everything or even return it to 2010 style if I desperately want to. I'm sorry this must sound so negative, on the plus side the old arrow was definitely looking past its sell-by date, making that the 'deploy' button seems like a good idea... until you try to reverse direction, then the UI goes through a very clunky transition. But even there in that band you've made some strange choices. Making the server name bold? (hello, it's the db we're comparing here, that's what matters) And where source and target used to be close together in the center, making it easy to read both in one glance, now you put them far apart so my eye has to travel more, that actually reduces productivity. I can't really look at both sides of the screen at once so I have to read and half memorize one side to get the comparison. Might sound picky but there's a real change in mental effort required to read it. Not a big thing if you just opened it so you know what you just selected, but what about coming back to some work after an interruption, or when you have several comparisons open at once? Malcolm / comments
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I agree with Doug too, somewhat relieved to hear I'm not the only one feeling this pain. I have to say so far v12 has been a bit of a disappointment, I do sense there are some incremental performan...
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Put it back ASAP! Today, puhlease! And take whoever thought it was a good idea to remove it outside for a vigorous session of percussive cranial maintenance. Seriously, why remove something that has major benefits for productivity? Oh, maybe because it's a really useful, cool, visually intuitive feature that most tools don't have and we'd rather be more like our competitors and not scare first time users with something different, something that's so easy to understand a child could get it it a minute or two. Actually maybe that's a dumb comparison, children grok UIs faster than adults these days, I apologise to all the kids. But anyway, let's replace it with yet another plain old file dialog with no useful visual cues and make the project file name be the only clue you have to select with, even though what we're replacing was much smarter and enabled filtering on what connections the project actually contains. Yeah that must be the right choice. Don't have a long meeting to discuss this, just put it into the next sprint and get it in release... please, pretty please, stomp my feet and hold my breath until you do please. / comments
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Put it back ASAP! Today, puhlease! And take whoever thought it was a good idea to remove it outside for a vigorous session of percussive cranial maintenance. Seriously, why remove something that ha...
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