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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   
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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Original Submission

• Re:I feel a great disturbance in the Force ... (Score: 5, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday February 14 2021, @05:55AM

  by The Mighty Buzzard (18) <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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