#VLC4 finally has an official release date in December 2026. I’ve just seen it ^^ #VLC #OpenSource #FOSS
I was still on version 4.0 from November 2025… Wow, there’ve been some changes to the menu bar. Why put it on the side WITHOUT the option to go back to the old one?
Maybe I didn’t look properly either…
But whilst I can understand it for much longer tab lists, with just five menus we’re losing space already taken up by the top bar (where the logo is).

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altphoto@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 12h
LOL! 🤣. It was bound to happen to someone else. Let me share with you my number 1 annoyance.....
Say it's 6am and the kids are still sleeping so you load up your porn into VLC....which was totally working just peachy the day before. Oh look! It's "updated", I guess I'll go check out the new features later...you know after my thing? WOW 😲! But look at her! And dang! Look at him! His thingies! Her thingies! And the other guy! All their thingies are bouncing all over the place. It's awesome! Let's see that again!
Again!
Again!
Ag... what the fuck? Where's the goddamn scroll bar? No! Well maybe it's hidden or something! Clicking everywhere! Under the nipples, nothing! Under the balls, nothing! Where is the bar!!!!
Wait, you mean to tell me that these engineers who write software for a living, had a meeting together, and they decided to show the video in one window and put the controls on another!!!!???? They saw it, used it, discussed it, reviewed and approved that?????
Imagine going to YouTube and you see a video you like, so you click on a different tab to press play!!!! Different tab!!! Yes! They reviewed and approved that exactly 💯!! WTF! Rewind? Yup, put that shit on a different tab! Heck let's put play on one window and pause on another and let's put the stop button on a different program that you must download separately and run from a different folder! Maybe the scroll bar could be a thing only visible by connecting two additional monitors? One for the bar, the other for the scroll? Great idea Mike!!!! You've made senior engineer!
Sorry, I'm still very salty about it. I'm getting much better. I deleted the shit out of VLC a few months ago, never looked back once. I asked chatGPT if that interface was good at all. It said sure!....
altphoto@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 12h
Off my diaper 🎁 box. I'm gonna go drive my pinto now!
With a burger. On the wrong side 😤. No ketchup.