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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: 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.