New UI

Themes, icons, fonts

• The new Light, Dark, and Light with Light Header color themes have improved contrast and a consistent color palette.

  

  

• The Inter font is used for the UI on all supported OSs.

• A new icon set has more distinguishable shapes and colors designed for legibility and visual balance.

Window header

Several widgets are located in the toolbar in the window header. From left to right:

1. Main menu (Windows and Linux only)

   The main menu is now hidden under the menu icon. To access menu categories, click the icon or press Alt+\. The elements will appear horizontally over other header widgets.

   You can display the main menu as a separate toolbar: go to Settings | Appearance & Behavior | Appearance and enable the Show main menu in a separate toolbar option. Alternatively, go to Window | Appearance and enable Show Main Menu in Separate Toolbar.

2. Project widget

   The widget shows the name of the current project or workspace directory, allows switching between recent project or workspace directorys, creating new project or workspace directorys, and opening existing ones.

3. VCS widget

   The widget shows the current branch, allows switching branches, and provides the most popular VCS actions like update project, commit and push changes.

   It has replaced the branch widget previously located in the status bar at the bottom of the main window, and VCS actions icons previously located in the navigation bar in the upper right corner.

While giving access to more features right from the main toolbar, new window header widgets hide actions in drop-down menus to simplify the layout.

Tool windows

Tool windows have a new layout and behavior:

• The tool window bars have big icons for easier visual navigation and a cleaner look. You can opt for smaller icons in the compact mode. To see a tool window name, hover over its icon for a tooltip.

  

• If you always want to see the tool window names, right-click a tool window bar and select Show Tool Window Names.

  

• Tool window icons in the upper parts of the left and right bars open vertical tool windows on the left and right sides of the IDE window.

  The icons in the bottom parts of the bars open horizontal tool windows at the bottom of the IDE window.

• Use the vertical and horizontal split to arrange tool windows: drag a tool window icon along the sidebar and drop it under the separator for the vertical split or on the other sidebar for horizontal split.

• The More tool windows button shows tool windows not yet present on any of the tool window stripes. When a tool window is selected, it is opened and its button appears on the default stripe for this tool window.

Editor tabs

• Tabs use more space and a bigger font for better legibility.

• Working with multiple editor tabs is now more convenient: if tabs do not fit the screen, you can choose between using a scroll bar, squeezing the tabs to fit all of them on the screen, or placing tabs in rows. Go to Settings | Editor | General | Editor Tabs | Show tabs in and select the required option.

  

  

  

Navigation bar

The navigation bar is now located in the status bar at the bottom of the main window.

If you prefer the former location, you can move it back to the top, or even turn it off completely. To do so, go to the main menu and select Window | Appearance | Navigation Bar.

Compact mode

In this mode, the IDE has the reduced heights for toolbars and tool window headers, scaled-down spacings and paddings, and smaller icons and buttons. This mode is suitable for smaller screens.