[zorpner]

This is a long-standing feature of VLC which I enjoy (the santa hat on the icon), but is similarly not enjoyed by everyone: https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=96539

My opinion about people who demand professional perfection from software they neither pay for nor can be bothered to review the source of are probably well-indicated by the tone of this sentence.

[saghm]

I think there's a difference between putting a cosmetic thing like this in an application rather than a library; if you put it in your application, you're not going to change the experience of anything other than your own product, but by putting it in a library, you're changing the experience of other people's applications. From reading other comments here though, it seems like this isn't a universal opinion though.

[djsumdog]

Yea, and VLC is really just a media player. Sure someone might be using it in production at a Kiosk, but that little icon change literally doesn't affect production use at all.