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[–] stoy@lemmy.zip -3 points 8 months ago (3 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

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 23 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

10 years later

"vlc is updating their UI again! I liked the one we have now, this just looks stupid. I don't think I'll like the changes."

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 3 points 8 months ago

That's fair, though the change from wXwidgets to Qt was fairly minor compared to this

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 8 months ago

It seems to have the "Classic" option as well, so it's fine.

[–] ares35@kbin.social 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

new ui is literal trash.

media formats it already does, and it is expected to support nearly everything. but as far as a front-end for whatever tf they're planning--there are plugins and extensions already, it should be there. not in the base code.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 4 points 8 months ago

Yeah, it looks like they are trying to port the mobile UI to their main program, going backwards in terms of usabillity on mainstream computers