I joined this forum simply so I could also emphasize that it is exceedingly frustrating to deal with a constantly changing UI.
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Hey! We hear the feedback on this thread and are pausing UI changes. The main UI change has been the agent layout, which came out in Cursor 2.0 after being in early access for the preceding month. The top right arrow icon ââ shifts the chat side with one click; we know thatâs frustrating so weâre figuring out a new path.
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Just responded to the comment above - if you use the ââ arrow icons, you should be back in the chat-on-the-right state, and you can hide the optional sidebar if you prefer. The main change is around a set of sidebars for configuring the agent/explorer/chat panes.
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Yeah, and every time I get rid of the chat after the update, the chat is back up to the initial setting!
it seems always breaks something on every single update that works stable in vscodeâŚ.
I completely agree
+1, removing the file-editor in the default view is a no-go and I almost uninstalled cursor today
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When I open files I see a sea of this nonsense - any changes have already been staged in git. There is no âkeep allâ buttonâ - I dont even want this tbh I just want the functionality off!
It is jarring and I hate it
In simple laymans terms, I should only see the red and green when I have opened a file via the source control panel.
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We love you cursor, please love us back and respect our time
The UI is sooo broken right now itâs infuriating
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which stupid idot made this new UI?
pathetic.
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Got it, in one of my projects it actually works great as I can switch between editor view and agent view. One of my projects is in WSL and in there I am unable to change editor<->agent views and it gets buggy. I like the new system. Thank you for the feedback!
Agree, please, do not change UI every day, and please remove hover sidebar with agents history, itâs very noising. Thanks a lot! I like your app very much, just donât make it better so fast without properly testing.
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I was ok with frequent changes, but the latest change trying to merge agent and editor mode since last two days has had me really annoyed. Either I donât get how to use it properly, or itâs just not built for how I was using it all day: having a companion alongside my IDE, not having one more chatgpt that happens to have (mostly hidden) command line. I want my IDE back !
EDIT: Just noticed from Switching to agent mode / editor mode broken - #21 by zyfihx that my main problem was being in agent mode while thinking it was editor mode ! And the latest ui changes have bugs leading to this confusion: use CMD+E to switch batch to editor, and Iâm back to how I wanted it to be !!!
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Just updated again and at least now Cursor admits with a little balloon popup that you were âswitched to Agent layoutâ and offers a âbackâ button to go back to Editor.
- it only lasted for a few seconds so I missed pressing the âbackâ button
- why wouldnât they simply have the balloon popup offer to switch to Agent layout instead of forcing the switch. How could forcing current users to change their layout ever be beneficial unless their goal was to remove the Editor layout in the near future and just have one layout. This is how Cursor roles out all mandatory changes, by making them optional but gradually forcing them more and more then they remove the old way of doing something. Very annoying.
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Wait, what? Suddenly there is no Status Bar in the IDE?!
Ah, turns out I need to go to Cursor Settings / Preferences and switch Default Layout to Editor in order to see the Status Bar. Took me a while to figure that out; a morning quest, heh heh.
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Seriously? What happened to the editor? Itâs gone from a powerful tool to a frustrating roadblock. Hiding the code by default is a massive step backward. It feels like they actively want to make it harder to do our jobs. I need to see my files and code, not stare at some abstract agent view. Even with AI coding assistance, the bedrock of this process is human oversight and auditingâand youâre making that nearly impossible. Itâs incredibly frustrating to be forced into this new view when the old one worked flawlessly. It feels like a betrayal of what made this editor great. How can I give clear direction to the agent and actually audit what itâs doing when itâs buried under this layer of abstraction? This isnât an improvement; itâs a genuine problem.
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I personally love my main âsidebarâ to be on the left:
- when I am in Editor mode I like Files being on the Left
- when I switch to Agent mode I like the Chat being on the Left
- I use Cmd+E to quickly change modes
However:
- a few time ago Agent / Editor modes tabs were removed from the top bar
- a few days ago they were added back (which I liked)
- today they removed them again
For me it is fine:
- having Agent and Editor modes so I can have on the left what I need to focus on and switch between them
- I liked having the mode Tabs in the top bar so I know better as a hint which mode I am currently in (sometimes I preferred clicking on Tabs rather than Cmd+E)
I think Cursor is the best product I used, I like composer-1 which is extremely fast and 98% reliable for me, I like that my way of programming completely changed 1 month ago when I initially gave Cursor a try (base VSCode user until then) - I donât like each day my IDE behaves / looks a bit differently though :))
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Speaking of the arrow icons, the arrow icons show up even if I have the agent panel disabled with no way to hide them. Please add a way to hide them in the right click settings
Despite having agents turned off, when I click the arrows and switch it to the left side, the new agent button pops up in the top left when it wasnât anywhere before (it doesnât even show up when I have it enabled on the right side. Only when I have the chat open does it show up, but it is showing up anyway when agent is set to the left)
There is now no way to just open chat on the sidebar? The button now opens agents instead of chat like it used to. I donât want agents, I want chat. Where is the button for chat?
Pressing âminimize chatâ freezes Cursor for about 2 seconds
Just fixed the navigation controls toggle not being respected. Looking at the others
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