microsoft / microsoft/vscode

Feedback: Modern UI feels less desirable

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#329,527 4 comments 20 reactions 1 assignee Claimed by @hawkticehurst View on GitHub
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Description

Type: Bug

- The default to Modern UI enabled: It took me a while to find the setting to actually revert to "normal mode".
- Several of the basic interactions with hover feel less desirable or even flacky.
- The Modern UI design feels cluttered and noisy.
- The flattening of the color theme detracts from visual clarity.

VS Code version: Code 1.132.0 (df53daabb18cd157bdb08c7f01c34df936cf12f4, 2026-08-04T15:30:20Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200
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Remote OS version: Linux x64 6.6.87.2-microsoft-standard-WSL2

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