# Kibana 5.0 - Step back?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-5-0-step-back/66019>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [November 14, 2016, 7:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-5-0-step-back/66019 "2016-11-14T19:35:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![sjivan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c57346/32.png) [@sjivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sjivan)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2016, 9:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-5-0-step-back/66019/3 "2016-11-24T21:57:55Z")

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I just upgraded from Kibana 4 to 5 and was quite disappointed by the new L&F of the dashboard. The dark theme especially looks very ordinary compared to the sharp look with borders around each visualization that was in Kibana 4.0. It's also pretty annoying / distracting to see the dotted borders around each visualization upon doing a mouse over giving the appearance of the dashboards being in development / edit mode rather than something presented as an end deliverable.

I see that the blog announcement specifically mentions that the removal of borders around each visualization as an improvement ([Kibana 5.0.0 released | Elastic Blog](https://www.elastic.co/blog/kibana-5-0-0-released))

> Oh, and we got rid of those stupid borders. You know the ones we’re talking about. Seriously, who puts borders on widgets in a dashboard? Not us… anymore.

Not sure how others feel but the new UI looks like a step back to me as well. Additionally the collapsed side nav always being visible is also rather distracting and has a color that does not match with the dark theme. Is there an option for a full screen mode for the dashboard alone?

Thanks,  
Sanjiv

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