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Open Source Video Player VLC Will Get a New UI This Year With 4.0 Launch

posted by Fnord666 on Saturday February 13 2021, @04:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the What-was-wrong-with-the-old-one? dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:

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.

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  • (Score: 5, Touché) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Saturday February 13 2021, @04:53PM (2 children)

    by Rosco P. Coltrane (4757) on Saturday February 13 2021, @04:53PM (#1112327)

    to a UI with flat featureless colored squares with cryptic icons in the middle, assembled in a haphazard, low-density collection of randomly colored squares with cryptic icons in the middle. That has been shown to be so much better than traditional menus and 3D-ish button configuration items lists time and time again.

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  • (Score: 2) by captain normal on Saturday February 13 2021, @05:46PM

    by captain normal (2205) on Saturday February 13 2021, @05:46PM (#1112353)

    Looks like you are referring to MMN (Mystery Meat Navigation web page UI).
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_meat_navigation [wikipedia.org]

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    "It is easier to fool someone than it is to convince them that they have been fooled" Mark Twain

  • (Score: 5, Funny) by JoeMerchant on Saturday February 13 2021, @06:14PM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Saturday February 13 2021, @06:14PM (#1112366)

    I bought a pair of bluetooth speakers, whose UI was aptly predicted by Douglas Adams decades ago:

    Every time you try to operate one of these weird black controls that are labelled in black on a black background, a little black light lights up black to let you know you’ve done it. What is this? Some kind of galactic hyperhearse?

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