If I had a dollar for every stupid UI element ever dreamed up by arrogant programmers and foisted on users like it was a gift from the gods, I would be a very rich man.

Bottom line, you guys suck. Have a nice time continuing to maim what was once the best Java development environment.

Done with you bozos.

I figured that’s ridiculous, of course there’s a way to get the real platform look in a modern Java app. Imagine my surprise to find out that not only is there no way to do this, but this is the implementor’s intended behavior and there’s no way to convince the implementor to change it back.

I don’t buy the argument that it’s hard to change the code.. are you saying you render the scrollbar directly instead of using a collection of graphic assets, as is typically used to implement a platform UI?

For what it’s worth, here’s another vote to have an option to put back platform appropriate scroll bar graphics.

How you decided that combining a multicolored status indicator with something as fundamental and commonly used as a scroll bar is beyond me. Not only that, but you REMOVED the scroll arrows, making single line code review on a laptop impossible unless you TRAIN yourself to do the new “JetBrains Way” (using control-down arrow).

I am not your lab rat. Don’t force me to retrain myself to use your new failed experiments when a the rest of the entire planet is using STANDARD scroll bars for the same task.

I actually quite like the new scrollbars, but I find your attitude in this matter and JetBrains’s apparent disregard for its customers to be a disturbing development. I have recommended IntelliJ to dozens of friends and colleagues, and I am personally responsible for my employer’s decision to purchase upwards of 100 IntelliJ licenses. I have always been very satisfied with JetBrains products and have been a firm believer in the company’s vision for nearly a decade.

Your conduct regarding this scrollbar issue is the first negative experience I have ever had interacting with JetBrains or its products. The way you have treated my fellow customers is frankly appalling. It may not mean much to your business, and judging by the stock you put in other’s opinions it will certainly mean little to you, but I am so turned off by what I have read in this thread, that I am seriously questioning whether I want to be associated with you or continue to do business with a company who would choose to have you as a representative.

It would be great if you did something to address your users’ concerns. Barring that, it would be considerate if you declined to do so by explaining why your users’ needs were not a high priority. But if even that is too much to ask, the very least you could do is apologize for being a prick.

You seem to point to the users as the problem with your new feature, but with so many people expressing difficulties with a “feature”, maybe you should put some work into offering an option to turn it off instead of all the work you are putting into creating FAQs and trying to talk everyone into how awesome it is.

Please provide an option to use “old” style scrollbars. I won’t make it my mission to get you to give your users the option, I will just go somewhere else.