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This is just sad at this point.
I guess the once mighty VLC is dead?

I would enjoy a Dark Theme myself, can't wait for that feature. White screens give me such headaches, must lower blue light.

A user did make their own native dark mode for VLC 3 Stable. I'll leave the link to his post here

https://www.reddit.com/r/VLC/s/outmbA8Iwg

It looks like someone has finally done it?: https://www.reddit.com/r/VLC/comments/1 ... or_vlc_30/

... that I have switched over to PotPlayer for one simple reason..... DARK MODE. 😎 VLC does not have this and trying to use a 'dark' skin just messes up the UI. It seems ...

... I have found that there is a beta version for VLC 4.0 and this has dark mode available built in. Although it is a work in progress and is by no means completed it ...

... why this has not been implemented to date. I've tried using so called 'Dark' skins but they just mess up the UI. Hey Devs, is it really that hard to add Dark Mode FFS ?? I have switched to another video player just for this reason and it works amazing ...

... [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSiSUiootRo] and VLC will be in Native Dark Style! If you can't seem to find how to download the DeviantArt here's ... Have Fun With Dark Mode! Thank you!!!! I've searched for something like this several times over ...

... that I have switched over to PotPlayer for one simple reason..... DARK MODE. 😎 VLC does not have this and trying to use a 'dark' skin just messes up the UI. It seems ...

... why this has not been implemented to date. I've tried using so called 'Dark' skins but they just mess up the UI. Hey Devs, is it really that hard to add Dark Mode FFS ?? I have switched to another video player just for this reason and it works amazing ...

iam still waitin for a dark version of the default VLC skin
it makes no sense that in 2024 still does not exist dark mode for vlc
it seems to me that devs dropped this app

A simple question: When will VLC add a frame preview in the progress bar as e.g. in MPC-HC?
The last topic I found is from 2012, so well... 12 years and nothing.

ps. when will dark mode be available?

I am trying to make my video playback not so undersaturated and dark. My intel (iris Xe) video card allows me to adjust these settings for ... to be overly bright. I've tried switching the VLC rendering target mode between the different versions of direct x, etc, with no improvement, ...

it would be great..
available dark mode skins suck and destroy funcionality

I don't think VLC for Android supports skinning; the user interface is hard-wired. You can change aspects of it, the most notable being whether it uses light mode, dark mode, or matches the Android mode. You can choose an orange home-page icon (released version) or green-apple (nightly previews).

... am tinkering with for quite a while is to get it to display in a proper dark mode. Suggestions always have been to just pick one of the many themes that can be downloaded. ...

... usage as to when the conversion actually finished.) And please, make dark mode the default setting. My eyes literally hurt after I opened VLC. Please do NOT make the ...

Hi
Is there a dark skin looking exactly like the default skin? I've been looking but haven't found any. A dark mode with the original layout seems only be available for Mac.

Indeed, it means that we are working on a official 4.0 update that brings the dark mode and lots of other things.

Are we there yet?

Would love for automatic dark mode / light mode switching to be added to VLC. It's pretty common for macOS apps these days.

We will fix this for the next update. Note that for the meantime, you can run the app in bright instead of dark mode to hide the status bar.

We will fix this for the next update. Note that for the meantime, you can run the app in bright instead of dark mode to hide the status bar.

Hi, Im using VLC in ubuntu mate and windows. ¿Why isnt a dark mode in windows? I cant find it.

I am using Mate, my old linux install is also on Mate. VLC is all dark on that install. It should just work, I have the same theme. Any way to tell what it is, it seems like the OS them, but not sure why? It is copied from my old install. Shot, this is in ...

As any other Qt-based app. If your DE and distro integrated stuff well, it should just work from desktop settings.