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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (6 children)

plans to support ad-supported online media streams

Why are they saying it like it's something good and exciting?

rewriting the whole core of VLC for the 4.0 release which will see a new interface

Where have we see it before? It's basically the classic scenario where popular software/service makes a complete chnage of design nobody asked for and it fails miserably. I recommend everyone to make a backup of the installer of the last version before this release...

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 7 months ago (5 children)

I just saw the screenshot of the early design of the new UI, looks like crap.

I even disliked the change from wXwidgets to Qt way back in the day, I have come around and like the Qt interface now, I don't expect that to happen with the new UI

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