not adding more and more options ...

[klumy]

I think instead of adding more and more options, it would be better to remove really unnecessary options.

So the whole options dialog will be cleaner.
Even the NON-Advanced optionsmenu has too much options

But at the moment I don't know which options could be removed... has somebody of you some suggestions?

[joseph5]

Maybe they should put a search button in the preferences window, it's a pain to look for options.

[klumy]

something like this.
Following options menu has also a lot of options, but it is organized in a more clean way

[The DJ]

Unfortunately, VLC is much more dynamic in it's structure. Example. Remove a module from VLCs module menu, and it's options will no longer show in VLCs preferences.

The system is highly flexible, but arguably less understandable. This is one of it's strengths. If VLC was like every other player out there, there would be no reason anymore to have it at all.

[dionoea]

On a side note: we are considering adding a "Simple prefs" dialog in the upcoming Qt interface (with only 20 or so settings displayed in a user friendly way)

[DGMurdockIII]

that cool

[MadlyMad]

This is the only topic i found out on this subject, appologize if there is a bigger one

is this Qt interface with "Simple Prefs" is the famous Qt4 which should be in VLC 0.9.0, right ??

for now I really agree with klumy,
preferences should really be much much more simple, there is so much useless options in there (the kind of feature you might be interest in, once somewhere in the next 10 years)

and I fear the "simple prefs" you talk about would be too much simple, a kind of WinXP playschool lookalike

the aim is not to make this simple for noobs, but simple for normal users and quite experienced users

for now if your looking for a specific option you almost have to unfold every trees
for example for a subtitle option it's quite unintelligible, you found out 5 or more options that should fit what you're looking for, but find out which one will really works for what you want to do


I would really be very glad to help you to clean up thoses preferences, there is a big work on this and it's still very usefull to have an external look
I understand how hard it can be to pull out an option you intentionally coded, that's why an external opinion is not useless

improving the preferences clearness will help a lot to make people interest in VLC, especially other software users, but VLC users too

Hope I'll be able to help you on this,
thanks by advance

[CloudStalker]

Have you tried a nightly build? Maybe you'll find that the options for "simple" preferences are cleaned up a bit.

[MadlyMad]

I'll give it a try very quickly, thanks =)

while hoping they'll become real build soon or later
possible feedback/opinion from me just after looking at this