If you don't like the VLC red winter cap which appears in and on the orange pylon in December it is now easy to remove on Linux and other desktop OSs, no more hassle commenting-out and recompiling VLC to keep the standard year round appearance.
1. Open VLC Player,
2. Click on Tools and select ‘Preferences’
3. Now at the bottom of the window select “All” under ‘Show settings’
4. Select Interface > expand Main interfaces, select ‘Qt’
5. Scroll down in the right pane and remove tick mark for “Allow automatic icon changes”,
6. Click the save button and close the preferences dialog popup
1. Open VLC Player,
2. Click on Tools and select ‘Preferences’
3. Now at the bottom of the window select “All” under ‘Show settings’
4. Select Interface > expand Main interfaces, select ‘Qt’
5. Scroll down in the right pane and remove tick mark for “Allow automatic icon changes”,
6. Click the save button and close the preferences dialog popup