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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: 2) by Arik on Sunday February 14 2021, @12:21AM (4 children)

    by Arik (4543) on Sunday February 14 2021, @12:21AM (#1112526) Journal
    "Skinning" done at the level of the individual app is a usability nightmare and that's one of the best things you can say for it.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 14 2021, @05:16AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 14 2021, @05:16AM (#1112672)

    just like alternative fonts when everyone else types like this and not like this.

    • (Score: 1) by Arik on Sunday February 14 2021, @11:49AM

      by Arik (4543) on Sunday February 14 2021, @11:49AM (#1112736) Journal
      "just like alternative fonts when everyone else types like this and not like this."

      If you're trying to make a point you're failing abjectly.
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  • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Monday February 15 2021, @03:18AM (1 child)

    by hendrikboom (1125) on Monday February 15 2021, @03:18AM (#1113011) Homepage Journal

    Skinning done at the level of the entire system needs the kind of standardization of interface API that led to freedesktop, ready to be overpowered by the systemd-ers.

    • (Score: 1) by Arik on Monday February 15 2021, @03:39AM

      by Arik (4543) on Monday February 15 2021, @03:39AM (#1113020) Journal
      Yes.

      A UI should never be equivalent to 'the entire system.'

      It's important to maintain a clear distinction between the different levels of abstraction.
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