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Re: after Stretch VLC is ugly

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On 2018-12-08, Felmon Davis <davisf@union.edu> wrote:
> Greets!
>
> I decided to upgrade from Jessie to Stretch last night. it seems to 
> have worked though there are some oddities.
>
> now VLC has grotesquely large control buttons ("Play," "Pause", etc.); 
> the interface in general seems to run on a different 'theme' than 
> before. the font size is ok.
>

[...]

> note a complication: I had Devuan installed and just did the Stretch 
> update on top of it. not sure of the relevance (thus I mention it).

Me neither, but it does muddy the waters somewhat.

>
> I don't recall the version of VLC on Jessie; it's "3.0.3 Vetinari" 
> here.

You have upgraded from vlc2 to vlc3, and from qt4 to qt5.

>
> I am using Trinity Desktop which maintains a version of KDE3.

Meanwhile, kde3 uses qt3. It may be that qt4 had better backward
compatibility than qt5. Have you tried running vlc3 in another desktop
environment?

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after Stretch VLC is ugly Felmon Davis <davisf@union.edu> - 2018-12-08 10:40 +0100
  Re: after Stretch VLC is ugly Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2018-12-08 12:10 +0100
    Re: after Stretch VLC is ugly Felmon Davis <davisf@union.edu> - 2018-12-08 19:50 +0100
  Re: after Stretch VLC is ugly Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2018-12-09 02:30 +0100
    Re: after Stretch VLC is ugly [SOLVED] Felmon Davis <davisf@union.edu> - 2018-12-09 06:20 +0100

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