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        How? They would have to know C/C++, Qt, QML; then learn how to navigate the codebase, compile the software and debug it.
        All that is very technical

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          Far less technical than AV1 support with software rendering, very little technical skills relatively.

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            Uh sure, relatively, but for someone who doesn't even know how to program that's relatively a super tall order, I don't know their background, but the activity itself definitely isn't low technical requirements in absolute terms, if instead you meant UI concept design, then it would have been more plausible

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            Its still a high technical skill you ask there. Its just a different field

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        This sort of attitude is completely new to me and so awesome. Like I can just contribute to software? 🤯

        I have choice words for the UI/UX of most Matrix clients. And they're open source!

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          Good. Those things need work.

          But expect a lot of your complaints to fall on deaf ears unless you're willing to do the work yourself.

          A lot of people in the open source ecosystem really don't understand good design.

          VLC, however, is one that does.

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            I really like design! Little buttons and colors and all those bits of tweaking. I've been looking more at projects on Lemmy to see how their UIs are coded, but I think the tools and frameworks all sorta run back to HTML/CSS/JavaScript so like if I learned that then I'd understand how to use Qt, PyQt, or Kotlin. Idk. I think designers tend to contract themselves to capital so the idea of an open source UI developer sounds goofy, but fun.

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      I had to get a plug-in to add click to play/pause so it's like almost every streaming site. Also, I don't believe there's a way to get it to automatically play the next video file in the folder after one video finished, without making a playlist.

      Small gripes, I know. I'm coming from MPC on Windows so I miss some of those features.

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    The best part about this update is that you can actually watch youtube videos in VLC again.