This is not me being afraid of change, this is me being afraid of the morons that have taken over Microsoft.

Ergonomics anyone? Does Microsoft have some hidden angle in forcing developers to visit their local optometrist? I don’t mind the look–if I jumped out of my skin every time Microsoft did something ridiculous…(well, I don’t know what I’d do.)

You can tell which one is which because there is a small bit of capitalized text below each telling you what it does. For example, you can tell apart speed and outside temperature because the speed gauge has “SPD” below it, while the temperature gauge sitting next to it says “TEMP”. The temperature gauge also starts at -20 and goes to +120, while the speed gauge goes from 0 to +140.

Eventually it would become second nature where exactly the speed gauge is located, and you would no longer make the mistake of mixing it up with the temperature gauge next to it. But why should you have to go through that learning process when the speedometer was better than the speed gauge in every way as far as usability and aesthetics are concerned?

With no easily distinguishable lines to separate different areas of the screen, it may require several seconds of scrutiny to determine whether, for example, the last line of visible text in a pane is actually the last line, or if the text is cut off by the bottom of the pane, and you should scroll to see more. With the old UI, such things were obvious, and therefore much easier to read and use. It was also much easier to tell the difference between buttons, tabs, and plain text, and to identify groupings of UI elements that probably apply to similar things.

Fortunately, the theme editor is fairly robust, and it was not too difficult for me to create a color theme that acceptably rectifies the problem. I can add contrast, and the UI becomes relatively easy to read again.

Now the main problems I’m facing are the crashing and slow find-in-files Unfortunately I don’t know of such easy workarounds for those.

You have a seriously cool product. One that is making everyone wonder how the bigger players ( not that telerik is small did not get this right. I do not know one developer that enjoys developing the same thing for every type of device, it sucks so much. And with windows you could essentially develop one app for every device type , phone , tablet, desktop. Actually you should get microsoft to sponsor it . It would only be good for them.

I know i would throw money at you for this.

Personally I loved VS 2010 and will continue to use it, it has a extremely nice UI design. Such a shame, i always looked forward to new releases of VS as the interface always got better and better. Until some absolute moron/s decided a bland looking Windows 3.11 interface would look great.