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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, Insightful) by PinkyGigglebrain on Saturday February 13 2021, @08:08PM (1 child)

    by PinkyGigglebrain (4458) on Saturday February 13 2021, @08:08PM (#1112402)

    "We modified the interface to be a bit more modern,"

    Every time I have seen these words it has meant terror beyond all imagining.

    Yes, I want support for more codecs and formats.

    No, I don't want a UI with lots of wiz bang shiny buttons that give me a headache to look and use, and all the config options have been renamed, moved and don't do what is expected.

    I hope to Gods that the new VLC will have skinning so someone can make a "Classic" theme so at least the main UI is usable.

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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday February 14 2021, @05:55AM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Sunday February 14 2021, @05:55AM (#1112688) Homepage Journal

    You know, we've got a fair amount of code-savvy folks around here. We should pick a project or two and either work together to work up some pull requests to unshit something good that's had stupid spewed all over it or just make a fork with only the unshitting code being different. You know, like VLC4 with a useful UI or an application you love that got shit all up when it moved to GTK3, with GTK2 code put back in.

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