Did anyone really think that the new UI was an improvement?

[Tony Gayter]

Im glad Im not the only one that thinks this new design is useless. Everything merges into one box of text with no colour or contrast to split it up. Why take git flow button away!?!? I found it in teh menu but it errors when I try and create a new feature. Useless, I actually though it was broken when I opened it.

Was there no user testing done on this product at all?

[Edoardo Liotta]

+1 to @Daniel Krämer about the readability of the modification icons.

For example: As many pointed out the distinction of modification (added / removed / modified) was clear and understandable, using language independent symbols (+ / - / ...) that where even color-coded. How the change to the new design here is "not tiresome" to you is beyond me and I would like to hear why you think that way.

As per another lost color-code, +1 to @Rasmus Mikkelsen:

• No color, why only use variants of gray and blue, its really hard to find anything at a glance

Just my two cents, I second @Joshua Wilke's request:

I really would like the option to have the old theme. Maybe you could let the user choose the old theme or this new flat theme.

[Sharon Hinde]

I had to uninstall the Windows 1.8 version within an hour because it kept switching to the File Status view when I wanted Log History. If I switched back to the Log History within seconds it had flipped to File Status again. Completely useless when you're actually trying to read what's happening in any other tab than File Status. Never seen that behaviour before and it was incredibly annoying.

And yes, the flat UI is a step back, but even worse was changing the file status icons. As others have noted the previous versions were clear. The new letters seem to go against all design instincts, forcing users to hover to figure out what they mean - don't make me think!

[Shawna O'Neal]

The new version is ridiculously hard to read, and quite frankly looks like an intern project. 

I'll be looking for an install to go back to the previous theme.

[Joshua Wilke]

Quote from Melek Rebai:

The new user interface looks like a wireframe and not a final product.

The icons are terrible.

The tabs are extremely bad looking.

I really would like the option to have the old theme. Maybe you could let the user choose the old theme or this new flat theme.

+1

[Steveiwonder]

Really dislike this update.

It also has more bugs.

No GitFlow button on the main UI (have to go into menu).

Keeps crashing when doing simple things like Create Pull Request.

Bad move.

[rekerukuru]

The new version is terrible. The new design gives a bad readibility. And I have tons of crash when I use it... I'm going back on the previous one ! 

[Markus Stenudd]

The diff window where you can stage / discard hunks / lines is just horrible, if you have some long lines (yes some people do that) buttons are hidden and u need to scroll to right to see them, and the functionality barely works, were giving errors that I could not revert some simple changes, which can't even be reproduced now, you can no longer select with SHIFT key, trying to copy the lines and paste them manually resulting in that the copied text is somehow backwards.

[Markus Stenudd]

UI now looks like Windows 3.x

[Jesse Degger]

I couldn't care less about the flat design, as long as it is functional I'm not complaining but where is my GitFlow button! The button absolutely needs to come back!

[MS]

The new UI is terrible. Also please bring back the GitFlow button.

[Andreas Vandenberghe]

i just "upgraded" to Sourcetree 1.8.0 build 36401 and the UI is now horrible. Is there a way back to how it was ? 

[Ola Mårtensson]

Personally I have strongly disliked flat UIs ever since this "flat trend" started, but this one takes the price. This is the not only one of the ugliest I've seen but it also completely worthless from a usability point-of-view. I'm sorry for the harsh words but this is bad.

If you lack things to improve in the SourceTree client please add support for using different diff-tools for different file types instead. That would be useful.

[Daniel Krämer]

@Honza Honza If you read my initial post you will see that I do agree that there might be beauty in simplicity, but only if it is done well - which considering the responses here is not entirely the case.

For example: As many pointed out the distinction of modification (added / removed / modified) was clear and understandable, using language independent symbols (+ / - / ...) that where even color-coded. How the change to the new design here is "not tiresome" to you is beyond me and I would like to hear why you think that way.

And calling out criticism as reactionary here is bold, when you have a divergent opinion on a topic.

[Dave Grandon]

Yes, I have an old version downloaded but always keep my software up to date unless there are lots of bugs in the latest version. Just disappointed that there is no option for my own theme

[glinse_director]

This is the latest downloadable version of windows with the old theme https://downloads.atlassian.com/software/sourcetree/windows/SourceTreeSetup_1.7.0.32509.exe

[Dave Grandon]

I totally agree, if this is a precurser to adding themes so we can change the look and feel then ok I can accept that

[Honza Honza]

Seems I'm the only one who likes it. I admin "There is beauty in simplicty". It's not tiresome anymore, it's more airy and colors are very pleasant. Good job Atlassian and don't look at those reactionaries.

[Johannes Kilian]

Also agree

Flat design, no contrast - feels like gooing back to the good old green/black terminals with ASCII-Graphics

As @Rasmus Mikkelsen said:

Having all the icons (modified, untraced, ....) in the same colour makes the GUI "unreadable"

Having different line spacings in Bookmarks, Filelist und Log makes the GUI look like crap

[Matt Butler]

@Jeff Pek - Based on this...

https://jira.atlassian.com/projects/SRCTREEWIN?selectedItem=com.atlassian.jira.jira-projects-plugin%3Arelease-page&status=all

The Windows version you probably want is...

https://downloads.atlassian.com/software/sourcetree/windows/SourceTreeSetup_1.6.25.exe

No idea how long it will be supported with the recent switch to Atlassian logons, but it might see you through this time of UI upheaval.

[Rasmus Mikkelsen]

Agree, the new UI is a step back

• No contrast
• Everything seems smaller and more crammed together and often not aligned
• No color, why only use variants of gray and blue, its really hard to find anything at a glance
• Alignment of UI elements seems "off", i.e., it looks like a new skin was applied but no one took their time to actually align everything to the new sizes

[Mark Beech]

The distinction between a modified file and an untraced file is not massively obvious anymore 

Could have at lease kept the yellow background on the modified icon.

[jeffpek]

How can we install an older Windows build? The above is a Mac build.

I'm finding all kinds of problems with the new version (e.g., doesn't show all pending changes – yikes!).

[Muhammad Ishaq]

FWIW, if you want to go back, you can download it here: http://downloads.atlassian.com/software/sourcetree/SourceTree_2.1.dmg (taken from: https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/290155 )

[jeffpek]

Agree. I don't like it either. Plus, the changes have introduced some regressions: 

 - Submodule repo tabs are automatically closed when you activate ST

 - Can no longer reorder repo tabs (right-hand side)

Having some color back would be nice – and what's with the new modification icons?? Yuck.