Add some color to Visual Studio 2012
Usability studies have shown that both shape and color help to distinguis visual elements in a UI. The upcoming/current beta release of Visual Studio 2011 has removed color from the toolbars and from icons in e.g. the Solution Explorer.
Please make this optional so those of us that want a more accessible and user friendly IDE can have their cake and eat it too.
Michiel
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Hi folks,
Take a look at the VS 2012 Color Theme Editor – it is an option for creating and editing your own Visual Studio themes.
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/366ad100-0003-4c9a-81a8-337d4e7ace05
thanks,
Doug Turnure – Visual Studio PM
1155 comments
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Michael Trigoboff
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The VS 2012 user interface absolutely sucks. Microsoft needs to provide us with a pre-built VS 2010 theme. You took a great product and made it ugly and unusable.
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Anonymous
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@Tom - One workaround is to just not develop any third party Win8, WP8, 4.5 based apps. Let Microsoft take on the burden of using this interface for 8 hours a day, since they seem to be the only ones who like it.
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ITMAGE
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@ Anon "Yeah, I know so keep using it - nobody is stopping you"
The other problem is that to develop Win8, WP8 and 4.5 based apps we'll need to use this beast. So we're left with little choice.
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radioman.lt
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what a shame for developing such ****...
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Rick C. Hodgin
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Something occurred to me today ... we're using "Visual" Studio ... and it's the worst visual experience since something Win 3.1.
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Anonymous
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Is Microsoft going to give us an option to switch the IDE back to 2010 mode? You started development with the 2010 shell so it should be possible. The Theme Editor is very helpful and hats off to the guys who wrote it. Seriously, thanks. The thing is, it's just not going to cover everything. Running an expensive development environment all patched up to correct visuals is really rather silly. I started using Microsoft products years ago so I wouldn't have to do this. Ever.
In all fairness to those of us in the community who don't like your interpretation of "Metro", we did voice our opinions early. You knew we didn't like it and you persisted. 40,000 downloads (and counting) of the Theme Editor makes quite a statement.
I'm going to get 2012 forced in front of me pretty soon and while I look forward to the internal changes I'm not looking forward to the visual experience. I work with this interface 8 hours a day, 5 days week. THEN I write for myself. It's a lot of time in front of a piece of software.
Without anything else to distract you from my message - I would like to have an option to revert the entire 2012 shell back to 2010. There's no good earthly reason for it to look the way it does and I for one am happy with whole Win7/Aero desktop computing experience along with the applications that were designed for it.
Yeah, I know so keep using it - nobody is stopping you. That's fine but once the team here starts developing with 2012 the choice to use 2010 will not be there.
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Anonymous
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Stupidest UI ever. I hate UI of VS 2012. I can tolerate UI of 2010. I love UI of 2008/2005.
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Aleksey Kovalev
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Icons is unusable. No productivity. Give us choice.
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Ashma Doodh
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Guys, Microsoft is following the footsteps of Windows 8--ugly and that's a single word that describes both Windows 8 and VS 2012
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ITMAGE
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There's a project over at codeplex called Visual Studio Icon Patcher
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Dwi Elfianto
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I guess MS really sucked into those Metro whatsoever nonsense. This IS 2012 and you give us, your developers this kind of UI? What kind of UI designer you employ?
The color scheme is f**king ugly, the icons is giving me eyestrain and the ALL CAPS menu SUCKS!
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Anonymous
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who the heck approved this color theme. I feel like scratching my eyes out. Major fail !!!!
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coderage
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I am having issues with the look and feel of VS2012 and it makes me want to close it and go back to VS2010 which is very appealing, productive and fun to work with. The new UX in VS2012 is very poor and I am very disappointed. I have used every Microsoft IDE since 1998 and VS2010 is still the best while VS2012 is visually the worst. I hate the Metro look.
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radioman.lt
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;]
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Rick C. Hodgin
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The new GUI ... well ["say something nice" he thinks] ...
At least the all upper-case main menu items use a proportionally spaced font. That's nice. And, at least there is an uninstall option. Also nice. And it did only waste 4 hours of my life trying it out. So, that's not so bad. But MOST IMPORTANTLY ... at least now I know what to expect in the future from Microsoft. And at least now I have a solid reason to devote some serious time switching everything over to Linux.
WOW!
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Abhishek Goenka
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Still all the icons are black and white. Anyways something got improved.
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bkausbk
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@Product Team, Microsoft: So please now create an icon pack extension and a colored title bar with menu without all caps.
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Anonymous
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I found on
https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/758845/immediately-provide-a-vs2010-theme-for-vs-2012 same as here, vote while can to make MS see our pray for our eyes :/ -
radioman.lt
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CUT THE ::: C_R_A_P :::
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exalting
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:::::::::::::: REMOVE BLACK SQUARES, RESTORE ICONS!!! :::::::::::::
