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Open source video player VLC will get a new UI this year with 4.0 launch:
News website Protocol ran an extensive piece on the history and status of the popular open source video player VLC, and the story includes new details about the next major version of the software. Among other things, VLC 4.0 will bring a complete user interface overhaul.
"We modified the interface to be a bit more modern," VideoLAN foundation President Jean-Baptiste Kempf told the publication. Kempf had previously shown some version of a new interface about two years ago, but it's unclear at this point how much that one resembles the one the team plans to introduce with VLC 4.0.
While the article doesn't list every change coming, it does outline a couple other possible directions and priorities for VLC.
Read the article for more details.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 13 2021, @04:23PM (13 children)
from the article:
Kiss a good piece of software goodbye. "Integrate more content" = fuck everything up in a vain attempt to get some money.
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Saturday February 13 2021, @04:42PM
So you're saying it's gonna be well and truly forked up?
Master of the science of the art of the science of art.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 13 2021, @04:44PM (9 children)
For fuck's sake people have to eat. Not everyone is a fucking nerd living in his mother's basement, content of feeding himself on pizza and coke for the rest of his miserable, irrelevant, worthless life.
It looks like those always bitching about not having everything for free, from people working for free, are those who contribute very little, if anything, to open source software.
Don't like the decisions VideoLAN are making ? Fork VLC. It's open source. For once in your miserable life, try putting actual work into something you use, you ungrateful, entitled little prick.
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Saturday February 13 2021, @04:47PM (6 children)
So you're only relevant if you're a cog in the corporate machine? Interesting theory...
Master of the science of the art of the science of art.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Saturday February 13 2021, @06:10PM (5 children)
For those of us who don't have trust funds to live on, the corporate machine is how we have food, clothing and shelter, and enough time to do a little hobby work of our own.
If you check the wealth distribution stats, the vast majority of the world does indeed have to work for a living - those Boomer's children living in their basements aren't going to have a free ride much longer.
Україна досі не є частиною Росії Слава Україні🌻 https://news.stanford.edu/2023/02/17/will-russia-ukraine-war-end
(Score: 5, Touché) by Arik on Saturday February 13 2021, @06:13PM
If you're doing that, you're doing it out of greed, not to survive.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by acid andy on Saturday February 13 2021, @08:03PM (3 children)
Yes, so selling out to corporatism is very often a necessary evil. That doesn't mean we should applaud bad business practices and decisions, nor should anyone be considered "miserable, irrelevant, worthless" merely for opting out of it all--note that doesn't necessarily mean relying on the support of parents although historically many, many people have had to do so.
Master of the science of the art of the science of art.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday February 14 2021, @07:35PM (2 children)
Of course not, but from the "in the belly of the beast" perspective, no matter how well one cog in the machine does their job, it has little effect on the overall result.
When I worked in the smaller, scrappier startup environments we often perpetrated worse software and development practices on our customers / the world, simply due to the lack of manpower funding and time - ship it fast, or run out of runway.
Of course not, if you have that option and have taken it: kudos, and I hope you can do better things from that perspective. Personally, I provide the sole source of income for a family of four so me opting out doesn't mean adopting a low cost lifestyle, it means wife and kids on food stamps.
Україна досі не є частиною Росії Слава Україні🌻 https://news.stanford.edu/2023/02/17/will-russia-ukraine-war-end
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Monday February 15 2021, @02:17PM (1 child)
You're right Joe. It's easy for me to spout ideology on here but we all do what we've got to do to survive, particularly when you add responsibility for the wellbeing of your offspring into the mix.
I really resent how the pursuit of the profit motive to the detriment of all else is screwing up the planet and even eroding democracy and civil liberties, but without the structures that developed around it I'd have very probably missed out on some things in life I'm passionate about--computer software particularly. I have to recognize that. I guess without industry and modern technology I'd have found satisfaction crafting inventions from raw materials.
Master of the science of the art of the science of art.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday February 15 2021, @05:36PM
So, my answer here would be: UBI. Not "everyone gets to kick back and live in luxury UBI," but enough to ensure basic food and shelter and let people who don't lust for more than that live a simple, low energy lifestyle instead of having to search for and commute to jobs they hate just to make enough money to not starve or suffer exposure, or worse have to jump through the government/philanthropic hoops necessary to get temporary food and shelter, or worse still: actually suffer exposure and hunger and all the expense that that ultimately brings on all of society.
With basic food and shelter security, people could really pursue dreams, the things they love, and make a little extra money doing it - and if they don't, oh well, they can still live the low cost (low energy) lifestyle while doing things they love - and when they quit loving one thing, they are free to try another and another, and maybe eventually one of those does make them significant money.
End minimum wage, no need. Scale back disability by the amount that people get in UBI. End subsidies for food, fuel and these other "necessities" that people have trouble affording - although I might classify communication as a basic human need to be provided for free to everyone. If energy for winter heating costs too much in a far North state and you can't pay for that with UBI, well maybe those living mostly on UBI should be moving to lower energy, lower cost climates to live, or building their own energy efficient homes in the cold climates.
It's not about killing the big corporations, it's about killing their stranglehold on people's options for employment and survival.
Україна досі не є частиною Росії Слава Україні🌻 https://news.stanford.edu/2023/02/17/will-russia-ukraine-war-end
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 13 2021, @05:09PM
Adverts on the video player that plays ad-supported content in between advertisements. People HAVE to EAT, you bastards!
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Monday February 15 2021, @03:19PM
Making people use a competing product is not a good strategy if making money is your goal. Unless you are the provider of that competing product, of course. ;-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 13 2021, @06:27PM
Let's wait for 4.0 to actually come out before throwing it directly into the wood chipper.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday February 13 2021, @08:30PM
This always seems to happen, from Slashdot all the way to Zerohedge's recent UI makeover. The second I saw the latter I thought, "Oh fuck, they're either totally compromised and/or gonna completely shit the site up in the pursuit of profit." They launched "premium" tiers of paid service where you have to pay to comment (with Zerohedge justifying it saying that comment sections will now be paid but uncensored), but it seems that either they will still implement some kind of censorship or serve as a honeypot for malcontents, now that punching up to the big hedge fund boys is considered "financial terrorism or insurrection." Of course I don't have any insider information and still like the site because I don't comment there, but I predict that more and more articles will need a paid Premium membership just to even read. Soon they'll be like any big newspaper, with an annoying full-screen paywall and being totally useless to read behind a proxy.
UI makeovers are better than early-warning radar when it comes to fuckery afoot. Even moreso when the makeover is toward the CIA/Mossad color scheme of Black and White used by the Washington Post and, more recently, BLM and Infowars.