I have a gallery view (for the playlist) and a contact sheet view (for the current file) that both have thumbnails. With the right scripts and configuration, you can turn it into a capable image viewer suitable for reading comic books (cbz files). Relating to that, scripts can add new protocol support for things like torrent files, magnet links, etc. It comes with builtin support for youtube-dl/yt-dlp (which work on a wider range of sites than vlc's equivalent feature), which can be modified to allow changing the format/quality on the fly. It has the JSON-IPC interface, which is much better than vlc's telnet interface (which is barely documented at all.) The pseudo-gui is written as a lua script and can be swapped out with your own to suit your personal whims. The cone used as an icon was also illustrating the fact that most of the code was heavily in progress at that time and so definitely not usable. This lead to various uses such as the creation of an unofficial acrobatic cone launch federation (« la federation internationale de cone ball » I tried to find a picture of a now prominent Google SRE in action but my google-fu escaped me) and various costumes.

On their way back, these young and stupid boys were stealing the cones from a nearby gas station and bringing them back.

This trend was certainly started by someone who became Debian Project Leader at some point and who was also enjoying eating regularly at a fast food restaurant in town. My personal memory that this happened because the people there were collecting cones at a high rate to play in the corridor of the floor (the 2H) of the student residence most of the VideoLAN / Via people were occupying at that time. I had never heard this story but this could definitely have happened at some point.

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