Hello everyone. It has been a long time coming, but we are officially deprecating System Menu in favor of the Ribbon Menu style with the goal of eventually removing System Menu entirely. This means that going forward, new Studio features will not be tested or supported in System Menu. New things may happen to work in System Menu, but we cannot guarantee it. We understand there are a number of developers who still use System Menu so we want to make sure that you know where we are coming from on this.

System Menu and Ribbon operate on such different bases that it is unsustainable to support both at once. With System Menu supported, every change has to be planned, implemented, tested, and maintained with the old style in mind. With the advent of Team Create, Studio now has to be tested with multiple sessions simultaneously. Add System Menu to the mix and the number of permutations of Team Create with System and Ribbon sessions increases dramatically. This takes time and effort all across the entire development pipeline, resources that could have been spent towards fixing bugs or adding new features.

System Menu isn’t disappearing just yet, but we do want to encourage everyone to make the jump to Ribbon as we don’t plan on System Menu being around forever. If there are bugs or problems with the Ribbon Bar that are preventing you from switching, we would like to get your feedback. In addition, if you feel there are things that System Menu can do that Ribbon cannot, please inform us. A smooth and powerful Studio experience is one of the best ways we can enable you all to keep creating amazing content and so if there are obstacles in your path we want to know about them.