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参与 JetBrains IDE 的新版 UI 预览

更新:新版 UI 预览计划目前已经关闭。所有已提交申请的用户已经或即将很快收到邀请链接,我们计划在 2022.3 EAP 周期向所有 EAP 用户开放新版 UI。

IntelliJ IDEA 于去年庆祝了自己的 20 岁生日。在过去的 20 年中,我们一直在改进产品的各个方面,包括其用户界面和实用性。然而,其间我们在 UI 的许多方面进行的变化幅度都相对较小,主要是因为我们想让我们 IDE 的数百万现有用户都能一直使用他们所熟悉的 UI。与此同时,业内 UI 趋势却在不断发展,我们有许多新用户告诉我们 UI 看起来已有些笨重过时。解决这一问题势必涉及到大幅变更。因此,我们做出了大胆的决定,将以全新的眼光看待 UI 并彻底重新构想 IntelliJ IDEA 和相关 IDE 在当今时代下的外观。

我们的目标是降低视觉复杂性,使用户能够轻松访问基本功能,并根据需要逐级呈现复杂功能 – 这样,我们将打造整洁、现代且专业的外观和质感。
 
新版 UI 的主要变更包括:
  • 包含新的 VCS、项目和运行微件的简化主工具栏。
  • 新的工具窗口布局。
  • 新的浅色和深色主题。
  • 更新的图标集。
 
我们还发布了更加详细的变更和已知问题列表
 
Fleet 是代表着我们尝试从零开始重建整个 IDE 的新产品,而新版 UI 则是我们对现有 JetBrains IDE 产品线进行的重新设计。我们更改了主 IDE 窗口的外观以及用户体验方面的一些内容,而所有以代码为中心的功能和集成仍沿用了之前的工作方式。新版 UI 预期将与所有 IntelliJ 插件完全兼容(主题插件可能需要更新)。
 
打造新版 UI 是一项重大任务,它会影响到我们所有用户的日常工作。正因如此,我们正在采取循序渐进并以反馈为导向的方式来推进这项工作。现在,我们即将启动一项预览计划,会向限量用户提供具有新版 UI 的抢先预览版访问权限,并为其提供可直接与设计和开发团队分享反馈的选项。今年晚些时候,我们将向所有用户开放新版 UI 试用权限,我们计划于明年将其设为默认 UI – 首先面向新用户,然后面向所有其他用户。新版 UI 最终将在所有基于 IntelliJ 的产品中可用,但部分产品的推出可能会延后。
 
在我们对新版 UI 的细化和完善进行迭代(基于我们期待从用户获得的富有洞察力的反馈)的同时,我们也计划在新版 UI 成为默认 UI 后继续同时保留新旧版 UI 至少一年。我们也做好了基于我们收到的反馈对推出时间表加以修订的准备,以应对我们需要在某些领域进行更多设计工作的情况。
 
如果您想参与此过程并准备在日常工作中积极使用新版 UI 并分享您的反馈,请在此处申请:

申请新版 UI

如果您的申请被接受,我们将向您发送安装说明以及提供反馈的指南。预览版将面向除 Rider 和 Android Studio 以外所有基于 IntelliJ 的 IDE 的用户开放。但是,我们的大部分测试均在 IntelliJ IDEA 中完成,因此如果您使用其他产品,可能会遇到较多问题。
 
我们期待大家的反馈!
 
 
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Take Part in the New UI Preview for Your JetBrains IDE

Update: The beta version of the new UI is available to all users in the 2022.3 release. Go to Settings | Appearance & Behavior | New UI to enable it.


Last year IntelliJ IDEA celebrated its 20th birthday. Over these past 20 years, we’ve been evolving all aspects of our product, including its user interface and usability. However, many aspects of our UI have changed relatively little during that time, primarily because we wanted to keep the UI familiar for the millions of existing users of our IDEs. Meanwhile, the UI trends in the industry have evolved, and many of our new users tell us that the UI appears heavyweight and dated. This is a problem we can’t address without major changes. Therefore, we made the bold decision to look at the UI with fresh eyes and completely reimagine the way IntelliJ IDEA and related IDEs should look and feel in this day and age.

Our goals were to reduce visual complexity, provide easy access to essential features, and progressively disclose complex functionality as needed – resulting in a look-and-feel that we believe is clean, modern, and powerful.

The key changes in the new UI are:

  • Simplified main toolbar with new VCS, Project, and Run widgets.
  • New tool windows layout.
  • New Light and Dark color themes.
  • Updated icon set.

We’ve also published a more detailed list of changes and known issues.

While Fleet is a new product representing our attempt to rebuild the entire IDE from scratch, the new UI is a redesign of the existing JetBrains IDE product line. We’ve changed the look and feel and some of the UX aspects of the main IDE window, while all the code-centric features and integrations work exactly as before. The new UI is intended to be fully compatible with all IntelliJ plugins (theme plugins may need to be updated).

The new UI is a huge undertaking which affects the day-to-day work of all of our users. Because of that, we’re taking a gradual, feedback-driven approach to rolling it out. Right now we’re starting a preview program, where a limited number of users will get access to early preview builds of the new UI and the option to share feedback directly with the design and development team. Later this year, we’ll let everyone try the new UI, and next year we plan to make it the default – first for new users and then for everyone else. The new UI will eventually be available in all IntelliJ-based products, but it’s possible that the rollout for some of the products will be delayed.

While we are still iterating on the refinement and polishing of the new UI (based on the insightful feedback we expect to get from our users), we plan to keep both the old and new UI for at least a year after the new UI becomes the default. We’re also ready to revise the rollout timeframe based on the feedback we receive if it turns out that we need to do more design work in certain areas.