The " A Better VLC by Default" skin (actual name: "VLC is better by default", definitely named by someone not fluent in English, hehe), is a skin which COMPLETELY cleans up all the default graphics, taking it from 1999 to 2010 in looks.There are three third party skins at the moment: The graphics ARE adequate in that they are at least Mac-INSPIRED, I'll give it that, but you could do so much better. It's also full of bugs like the position searchbar for videos actually going out of bounds and going into the timer area in some cases. They weren't good then and they aren't good now. The reason being that if a newer version of VLC changed names of or added new UI controls, those controls will be missing from your outdated definition and you will end up with VLC crashing as it tries to access something that isn't defined.Īnd I agree, THE DEFAULT VLC SKIN LOOKS ABSOLUTELY AWFUL, THE BUTTONS ARE BLURRY AND NOT *AT ALL* UP TO MAC STANDARDS, AND HAVE ESSENTIALLY REMAINED THE SAME FOR AT LEAST 6 YEARS. The problem with those "radical redesign" skins that move things around in the UI is that you can't just throw an old Interface Builder Design (like the "MainMenu.nib" that those redesigns use) into a newer version of VLC. If any Macintosh users find any additional OSX-based themes for VLC, please post your links in this thread. I have just started looking for Snow Leopard compatible VLC themes, so there may be more out there that I am not aware of yet. All you have to do is to do a "Show Package Contents" by right-clicking the VLC icon, and then replace a number of images in the "Resources" folder, as well as replace the "MainMenu.nib" file that is located in the "English.lproj" folder, which is a subfolder of the "Resources" folder. You can find these two skins - plus a third theme - at the following link: The second theme - called "BlackPearl" - was made by Hirogen. One was made by "Fantomasss", and is called "Delicious VideoLan Mod". They may work on older versions of OSX as well, but I am not sure. There are a few nice black-based skins/themes for the Macintosh version of VLC which currently work with VLC 1.0.5 on Snow Leopard.
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