On Sat, 8 Dec 2018, Nick Koretsky wrote:

> On Fri, 7 Dec 2018 23:46:05 -0500 (EST)
> Felmon Davis <davisf@...> 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.

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.

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Felmon Davis