7 Dec
2018
7 Dec
'18
8:46 p.m.
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 ("Pause", etc.); the
interface in general seems to run on a different 'theme' and anyway
is over-large.
I have tried the "forced window style" option under "preferences" but
none of the various options but they make no different in these
respects. maybe 'CDE' comes closest.
I have purged and re-installed VLC also to no avail.
I have looked at the 'themes' VLC offers. awful. just want my
orange-colored working interface back.
the only other application I've found which has undergone similar
changes is Pan - it has a more 'pastel' shaded control set which I
don't appreciate but can ignore.
note a complication: I had Devuan installed and just did the Stretch
update but not sure of its relevance (thus I mention it).
f.
--
Felmon Davis
8 Dec
8 Dec
12:17 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] ugly VLC after Stretch
On Saturday 08 December 2018 05.46:05 Felmon Davis 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 ("Pause", etc.); the
interface in general seems to run on a different 'theme' and anyway
is over-large.
(...)
note a complication: I had Devuan installed and just
did the Stretch
update but not sure of its relevance (thus I mention it).
f.
Hello,
All I can say is I have stretch and TDE on several machines, as well as VLC,
and I see none of these. No idea if Devuan could be a source of trouble but
your problem quite probably has a local cause.
I add a snaphot of what vlc looks like here, in case what I see is what you
find ugly :)
Thierry
12:28 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] ugly VLC after Stretch
On Sat, 8 Dec 2018, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
On Saturday 08 December 2018 05.46:05 Felmon Davis
wrote:
it is beautiful. I am overwhelmed!
and jealous. it's more or less what I used to have.
had trouble trying to fetch older versions from online. one compile
failed but don't want to open another "rabbit hole".
I've played with some skins but they don't solve the problem (big
control buttons) and they add different varieties of ugliness.
I'm in the process of pulling it up by the roots (synaptic seems
helpful, 'apt-get purge' left a lot of debris) and attempting a
reinstall.
f.
--
Felmon Davis
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 ("Pause", etc.); the
interface in general seems to run on a different 'theme' and anyway
is over-large.
(...)
note a complication: I had Devuan installed and
just did the Stretch
update but not sure of its relevance (thus I mention it).
f.
Hello,
All I can say is I have stretch and TDE on several machines, as well as VLC,
and I see none of these. No idea if Devuan could be a source of trouble but
your problem quite probably has a local cause.
I add a snaphot of what vlc looks like here, in case what I see is what you
find ugly :) 
1:34 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] ugly VLC after Stretch
On Fri, 7 Dec 2018 23:46:05 -0500 (EST)
Felmon Davis <davisf(a)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 ("Pause", etc.); the
interface in general seems to run on a different 'theme' and anyway
is over-large.
I have tried the "forced window style" option under "preferences" but
none of the various options but they make no different in these
respects. maybe 'CDE' comes closest.
I have purged and re-installed VLC also to no avail.
I have looked at the 'themes' VLC offers. awful. just want my
orange-colored working interface back.
the only other application I've found which has undergone similar
changes is Pan - it has a more 'pastel' shaded control set which I
don't appreciate but can ignore.
note a complication: I had Devuan installed and just did the Stretch
update but not sure of its relevance (thus I mention it).
vlc is qt5 app. You need to install qt5-style-plugins. After that you can
force theme in vlc setting. There is no qt3 of course, but there is gtk2,
and gtk2 theme is not hard to configure. The other solution is qt5ct, but
its not in stretch. You can build the buster version with apt-src.
--
Nick Koretsky (nick.koretsky(a)gmail.com)
10:41 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] ugly VLC after Stretch
On Sat, 8 Dec 2018, Nick Koretsky wrote:
On Fri, 7 Dec 2018 23:46:05 -0500 (EST)
Felmon Davis <davisf(a)union.edu> wrote:
I installed qt5-style-plugins; gtk2 is already available, indeed, I've
tried setting 'force windows style' to this toolset.
still big buttons. overlarge 'window' for VLC in general though
font-size is ok.
f.
--
Felmon Davis
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 ("Pause", etc.); the
interface in general seems to run on a different 'theme' and anyway
is over-large.
I have tried the "forced window style" option under "preferences"
but
none of the various options but they make no different in these
respects. maybe 'CDE' comes closest.
I have purged and re-installed VLC also to no avail.
I have looked at the 'themes' VLC offers. awful. just want my
orange-colored working interface back.
the only other application I've found which has undergone similar
changes is Pan - it has a more 'pastel' shaded control set which I
don't appreciate but can ignore.
note a complication: I had Devuan installed and just did the Stretch
update but not sure of its relevance (thus I mention it).
vlc is qt5 app. You need to install qt5-style-plugins. After that you can
force theme in vlc setting. There is no qt3 of course, but there is gtk2,
and gtk2 theme is not hard to configure. The other solution is qt5ct, but
its not in stretch. You can build the buster version with apt-src.
10:45 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] Re: ugly VLC after Stretch
On Sat, 8 Dec 2018, deloptes wrote:
Felmon Davis wrote:
I used 'adduser' and opened the session; still problem with VLC.
so, yeah, something in the basic system.
I suspect I have to fool around with gtk2 somewhere. I dread that but
may dig in tonight.
the other applications I use seem ok. Pan has changed its interface so
that the menu icons are more 'pastel', which I dislike, but I
generally ignore them anyway.
f.
--
Felmon Davis
and jealous. it's more or less what I used to
have.
what happens if you create a fresh user and try with fresh (default)
settings?
1:28 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] ugly VLC after Stretch
a new wrinkle - hadn't noticed but the menu options in OpenOffice are
now only visible if you pass the mouse cursor over them.
weird.
the laptop is an ASUS UX305F.
no such problems until Stretch. of course, I may have mangled the
update somehow.
tried a reboot also. this thing usually runs 24/7.
f.
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Felmon Davis
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