Hello! I downloaded Cursor today and I’m putting it through its paces. I like what I’m seeing so far. Building on top of VSCode was a great decision; I pulled in all my extensions and was up to speed almost instantly.
You made one design decision I’m curious about. Why change the row of icons on the primary sidebar from vertical to horizontal? It certainly gives Cursor its own feel, but it adds friction when showing & hiding the primary sidebar, which I do often. You must have done that for a reason, and I’m curious what it might be.
Original intention behind pivoting the sidebar was to free up horizontal space for the chat.
Have heard that there are folks who are very tied to the old orientation. To address this, we plan to give people the option to change back the orientation quite soon!
thank you very much for adding that back in! it really slowed me down getting used to the horizontal (for me worse) design. But nonetheless, thank you very much for this great product! And also for the hotly ongoing development with its many new features ^^
This is absolutely something I missed when migrating from VSCode! Thanks so much for adding in the option to put it back, having to move the mouse all the way up to the top of the screen and precisely click a much smaller button was jarring and definitely slowing me down.