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IDProjectCategoryView StatusDate SubmittedLast Update
0005988Kali LinuxFeature Requestspublic2020-01-10 10:382020-07-22 11:12
Reporterrootjb0 Assigned Todaniruiz  
PrioritynormalSeverityfeatureReproducibilityN/A
Status closedResolutionno change required 
Product Version2019.4 
Summary0005988: Inclusion of VLC in Kali-2020.1 ?
Description

With the new non-root user policy set to be in the 2020.1 ISO, is it possible to reintroduce VLC media player by default?

Before this was not possible due to VLC disallowing running as root, but now it should be possible similar to how it was in Kali-1.1.0a. The VLC package and its dependencies amount to 98.5 MB total.

What are your thoughts about this? Personally, I prefer VLC to Parole as AFAIK it supports more video/audio formats.

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daniruiz

daniruiz

2020-07-22 11:11

manager   ~0013112

VLC is a qt app which doesn't integrate that well with XFCE. That's why the default Kali installation with XFCE comes with Parole video-player instead, but the KDE version does include VLC, as KDE is qt-based

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2020-01-10 10:38 rootjb0 New Issue
2020-01-10 10:38 rootjb0 File Added: Screenshot_2020-01-10_04-36-47.png
2020-07-22 11:11 daniruiz Note Added: 0013112
2020-07-22 11:12 daniruiz Assigned To => daniruiz
2020-07-22 11:12 daniruiz Status new => closed
2020-07-22 11:12 daniruiz Resolution open => no change required