Next, there are people who wondered about the “newly introduced playlist”. Please note that in rare occasions, the sidebar will be restored when restarting VLC 2.0.1. Once you started adding items to the playlist, it will look like this: The sidebar will remain hidden and all you get is this plain window: Just grab the devider between drop zone and sidebar. So, if you don’t want to use the newly introduced sidebar, you can easily get rid of it. Let me start by showing the default view: However, it works exactly the same way if you prefer the dark style. For sakes of simplicity, I’ll demonstrate the gray, default appearance only.
However, there are quite a few users, who want to customize the UI, which is easily possible.
In VLC 2.0, we introduced a brand new interface, which looks quite different to VLC 1.x.