Are some settings missing in "All Settings?"

[Chrisi22]

VLC 2.1.5 portable in Vista.
There are 2 views for preferences / "show settings" : Simple & All. I thought All meant all.
But some settings appearing under simple mode don't appear in All mode.

Like under Interface Settings, "Allow only one instance" & "Use only one instance when started from file manager" don't show in All Settings view.
I looked forever & thought Allow one instance had been removed - till I saw an example of using Simple View.

Is this by design or oversight? I haven't compared every setting in both views to see what others in Simple view aren't in the All view.
Thanks.

[kodela]

Already under Towflower there were in the Interface Settings following settings, the in "All Settings" did not exist at:

"Allow only one instance", "Use nativ style", Use custom skin" and "File extensions association".

Meanwhile, there are now even more.

[Ludrax]

Like under Interface Settings, "Allow only one instance" & "Use only one instance when started from file manager" don't show in All Settings view.
I looked forever & thought Allow one instance had been removed - till I saw an example of using Simple View.

in that mode you can use search or look under Playlist

[Chrisi22]

Thanks to you both.

Thanks for the search tip. Not used to seeing search function built into a preferences UI.

For settings as common as this, probably shouldn't need to use 'Search.'

In either Simple or All view - what do "Allow only one running instance" & "Use only one instance when started from file manager" have to do w/ the "Playlist?"
Seems totally misplaced? Yes - there's search, but they're unrelated to the Playlist. I understand it's difficult to develop & maintain a complicated prefs listing like this.

Of the existing section titles, these 2 prefs should probably be in either Advanced or Interface.
But other apps w/ these (& certain other) settings, usually put them under more logical sounding prefs headings.
Like, "Start / Run / Exit" or "Run Program" or "General" or such.

I suggest adding a section to the prefs UI for this; possibly others.
Notepad++ has 14 main sections in prefs UI; IrfanView has 13; SMPlayer has 10 main sections. VLC has only 7.
I venture that these & other apps have many fewer prefs settings than VLC, yet more main prefs headings - for a good reason.

Is it a contest? No, but for any info list or help file, putting items in logical categories has always been good practice - much easier for users & should result in fewer support questions.

* Could there be an "official" forum topic / sticky started, where users submit change suggestions for oddities & possible mistakes in the prefs UI, to make updating it easier?
So these suggestions could be gathered in one place?

Even if users would register / login bug tracker & submit feature requests for something like changes to the prefs UI (likely, most won't), don't need a different submission for every prefs UI suggestion.