Five Things To Love About the New UI

Are you using the New UI yet? Not yet? Let me tell you why it's the best thing since sliced bread! Let’s get it enabled and take a look around. The easiest way to do that is from the Settings cog at the top-right of the UI: PyCharm will need to restart, but that’s it; you’re done! In this interface update, we have introduced more blank space around the various elements. This is to help separate content without adding elements such as dividers on the screen. If you prefer to have the UI elements a little bit smaller, you can select Compact in the Meet the New UI tool window (or later in your Settings by searching for "new ui"). This setting removes some white space and padding around interface elements. There are a couple of themes that you might notice straight away, including the use of colour and element size to denote information hierarchy.  For example, in the Dark theme, we have a dark gray bar at the top for common entry points to functionality such as VCS actions and Run actions and a black background for the editor.  Let me give you a tour of the lovable little landmarks in this UI.