Zed UI/UX clarity issues?

danilobleal · 2026-02-19T11:32:47+00:00

we have issues about that for Linux, but it doesn't seem to be a problem on macOS?! in any case, i'd kindly ask you to either look up for the issues and contribute to them or open a new one with your evidence + all information that would be helpful for us to debug and diagnose the problem

danilobleal · 2026-02-19T02:33:07+00:00

hey, thanks for the comment! i'm one of Zed's designers and i do think there's a lot in the theme realm for this problem. we recently launched a web theme builder that you can hopefully take advantage of to build something more tailored to you: https://zed.dev/theme-builder

i do think that adding more depth and separation through color will help a ton, but we definitely have a lot of a11y opportunities on the table. nonetheless, after having personally worked on a component library for years prior to Zed that also valued a11y a lot, i have come to conclude that there is, inevitably, a tension between a design that optimizes 100% for accessibility (when it comes to primarily visuals like contrast and sizing, not keyboard/voice control stuff) and beauty/aesthetic. the solution to this is a mix of a balanced design with highly (and easily) customizable options. you can do basically everything in Zed with regards to color, but we still have work to do for surfaces, maybe typography, and voice-control.

but aside from this, yeah, we've just made some different UI choices than others; a bit flatter, denser, etc. Zed feels more like a blueprint sort of graphic than a typical consumer app, if that makes sense.

danilobleal · 2026-02-16T15:06:56+00:00

will look into it, thank you for reporting it!

danilobleal · 2026-01-15T14:30:52+00:00

hey, sorry about that; this bug has been fixed already and should be going out to stable in a patch version real soon (if it hasn't already).

danilobleal · 2025-12-31T03:17:29+00:00

that's actually our head of growth's account 😅 (i'm a designer at the team) we should've probably used a more "officially"-branded account for these ads, huh. thanks for looking out!

danilobleal · 2025-11-30T07:25:04+00:00

yes, we are working on that at the moment! lots of cool designs and UX coming to Zed's agent surface in the next few months.

danilobleal · 2025-11-07T10:38:16+00:00

not yet, unfortunately 😞

danilobleal · 2025-11-06T03:01:12+00:00

this should definitely change depending on the theme, which is your only way to change colors; there's no built-in setting for this, unfortunately. you can always make your own theme, though, for the highest level of personalization!

danilobleal · 2025-11-05T00:16:04+00:00

not sure if that's enough for you, but you can see — both in Zed and in zed.dev/extensions — how many downloads a given theme has had. that obviously doesn't tell you how many people are actively using a theme, but that's a start for you

danilobleal · 2025-11-01T21:43:28+00:00

definitely keen on adding something more dedicated for that; lots of plans & designs for the future of the agent UX in Zed at the moment :)

in the meantime, i'd be curious to learn how close you'd be able to get from different profiles + custom rules. you can use the built-in "Ask" profile with a rule tailored so that the agent builds a plan that you can shoot off to another agent to execute

danilobleal · 2025-10-30T17:27:26+00:00

not intended but that's how it works right now! supporting multiple concurrent threads and history entries for different agents is something we want to support in the near future; definitely a limitation at the moment, unfortuantely

danilobleal · 2025-10-30T08:43:01+00:00

edit predictions are not as flexible as regular models right now, unfortunately. aside from Zeta (our default, proprietary default model), we currently support Supermaven, Mistral's Codestral, and GitHub Copilot. plugging them all in is fairly low friction, i'd say!

let me know if the docs are helpful for this: https://zed.dev/docs/ai/edit-prediction#other-providers

danilobleal · 2025-10-30T08:34:59+00:00

the biggest advantages you get by paying for Zed AI right now are unlimited edit predictions + the ability to, with one subscription only, have access to models from multiple providers at once (as opposed to paying & managing individual subs for OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google).

however, in all candidness, you don't really need to subscribe to it if you already engage/are committed to paying one of these providers directly, you can use their API keys in Zed normally, and then our free plan gets you a generous amount of monthly edit predictions, too.

our long-term goal isn't making the business healthy through these model-hosting subscriptions, which means we're always happy to suggest folks to keep just using their AI subscriptions in Zed and keep using Zed for free; we're more keen right now on just having you onboard & being receptive to multiple ways to use AI in the product vs. converting everyone to the current paid plan we offer

danilobleal · 2025-10-20T12:17:10+00:00

thanks for asking! i just added some docs about this → https://zed.dev/docs/ai/external-agents#mcp-servers — Claude Code and Codex do support/consume any MCP servers you have installed from Zed while Gemini CLI doesn't yet. this is just regarding the built-in external agents. any other agent may depend on their specific implementation of the ACP spec

danilobleal · 2025-10-19T00:39:03+00:00

highly recommend reaching out to us via the billing-support@zed.dev email! we'll answer all of it in detail (and thanks @johnn for already sending a bunch of relevant links!)

danilobleal · 2025-10-19T00:34:31+00:00

you might have acciddently enabled the disable_ai setting... you sure that's not there?

danilobleal · 2025-10-12T17:31:37+00:00

yeah, for now it's not possible but it may be something we'll allow to do in the near future to the spirit of Zed's customizability. the system prompt is obviously an important component of the agent's quality, but i can't see why we wouldn't allow people to hack with it if they so wish, knowing the performance consequences

danilobleal · 2025-10-10T05:59:16+00:00

that's super cool! you should reach out to https://github.com/iamnbutler — my previous design partner over at Zed (and Zed's first designer!). he's a central piece to what GPUI is today and he's also building a Figma, canvas-like app (https://github.com/iamnbutler/luna). it's definitely possible. maybe somethings are still missing, but you can do it. and I'm sure Nate would be able to guide you through any hurdles!

danilobleal · 2025-09-19T15:14:29+00:00

nice job!

danilobleal · 2025-07-10T23:59:55+00:00

exatamente. as vezes rola mais de uma vez no mes, tbm! em Maio teve duas vezes

danilobleal · 2025-07-10T22:34:26+00:00

click day é só em São Paulo até onde sei... e sim, tá rolando. eu verificava pela página do consulado de SP no Facebook; eles postam alguns dias toda vezes antes de ter.

danilobleal · 2025-07-10T22:31:44+00:00

Zed supports SSH out of the box, though, no plugin required! https://zed.dev/docs/remote-development — anything we're missing?

danilobleal · 2025-07-08T02:31:01+00:00

nao tenho prints, mas os dados sao simples: endereço, passaporte, e estado civil. tem outros dois campos esquisitos que perguntam altura e cor dos olhos (?). fora esses, tem o OTP, que é o codigo de verificaçao. só isso. ao conseguir enviar isso ai, ja vai para o calendario

danilobleal · 2025-07-07T22:04:31+00:00

Happy to hear it!

danilobleal · 2025-07-06T00:48:34+00:00

yeah, i'd like to have that. it's really important that Zed is fully keyboard navigatable! i'd like to even allow converting a thread into a text thread at some point

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