What is the last Anki version that has the old design?
The new design is terrible; I can’t stand it. It looks like it was designed by a student who is learning HTML as a hobby.
The white boxes in deck options are unnatural, is that an add-on or photo editing?
You can use the previous deck options by holding shift before opening, although there will be missing options such as FSRS, Auto advance, Burying (bury interday learning siblings) and Easy days
On the main screen, you can change using the Anki style instead of native: Tools > Preferences > Appearance
What is the last Anki version that has the old design?
Releases · ankitects/anki · GitHub
2.1.53 released in 27/may/2022. There will be bugs, security vulnerabilities and missing features for being an old version
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No. That’s how it works when the dark theme is enabled. Even when all the add-ons are disabled.
Thanks a lot for the link and the information. I really appreciate it.
I wonder, was this redesign really necessary? It’s unattractive, cheap, and off. The previous design was much better!
That’s what it looks like on the qt5 build, which has been discontinued. qt6 builds are the only ones available going forward
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@llama Thanks, now I understand.
The problem is that the Qt6 version doesn’t have tabs for some reason. They’re very helpful.
Was it really necessary to remove them?
From what I understand that was part of Qt, not something Anki can control.
Something changed between Qt5 and Qt6 which made tabs stop working.
Qt5 is very old and has not been supported since May 2023.
As Anki has been developed there have been more and more bugs in the Qt5 build because of differences between Qt5 and Qt6.
It was recently decided that keeping Qt5 support was just not worth it any more.
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Tabbed windows for Qt6 on Fullscreen - Anki / Help - Anki Forums
Qt removing support for it means that’s not much anki can do. But judging from
this issue and comment, I think dae’s planning to replicate it in qt6 by replacing all native qt dialogs/windows with (embeddable) svelte screens
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