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I am seeing a santa hat icon now on my media viewer. Not being Christian and not celebrating Christian holidays I'm wondering how I can remove that? I would not want to believe that VLC has positioned itself as a Christians only project. Is there a way to disable this if a user finds it offensive to his differing beliefs?

Not without compiling it yourself. If you want to dig through the source code, then go for it.

In any case, you're not the first one to ask.

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There's nothing religious about Santa hats. Heck, my practicing Hindu manager wore one at the office when we had our holiday fun ie gift exchange. The "Santa Side" of Christmas is completely secular/non-religious. You may as well complain about the days of the week, which are all named after Roman and Nordic gods (ie Saturn for Saturday, Thor for Thursday, etc.)

I am seeing a santa hat icon now on my media viewer. Not being Christian and not celebrating Christian holidays I'm wondering how I can remove that? I would not want to believe that VLC has positioned itself as a Christians only project. Is there a way to disable this if a user finds it offensive to his differing beliefs?

Santa Hat are not christian.
I suggest you to change the date, use the skins interface of VLC, or buy a brain.

There's nothing religious about Santa hats. Heck, my practicing Hindu manager wore one at the office when we had our holiday fun ie gift exchange. The "Santa Side" of Christmas is completely secular/non-religious. You may as well complain about the days of the week, which are all named after Roman and Nordic gods (ie Saturn for Saturday, Thor for Thursday, etc.)

Thank you.