Harsh Words From Google On Linux Development

jeevesbond writes "The alpha version of Google Chrome is now available for GNU/Linux. Google Chrome developer and former Firefox lead Ben Goodger has some problems with the platform though. His complaints range from the lack of a standardised UI toolkit, inconsistencies across applications, the lack of a unified and comprehensive HIG, to GTK not being a very compelling toolkit. With Adobe getting twitchy about the glibc fork and previously describing the various audio systems as welcome to the jungle, is it time to concentrate on consolidation and standardisation in GNU/Linux in general, and the desktop in particular?"

Comments

Re:World of goo anyone?

[K. S. Kyosuke]

I installed openSUSE 11.1. I played an MP3 file. The CPU was at 30% of utilization, half of it consumed by PulseAudio and half of it by the player (don't recall the player now, though, but I think it used one of those Fluendo codecs to decode the stream). I ditched it, installed MPlayer and it went down to 1.5%. Now what's the point of all that crap?

Re:I don't see anything wrong

[Blakey Rat]

Kind of off-topic, but how does Jake compare to Windows Live Sync? (Given that I only care about Windows computers, and I don't need cross-platform features.)

One of the problems I have with Live Sync now is that my laptop is frequently used on terrible wifi networks. For example, wifi networks that the laptop can connect to, and sometimes return enough packets to make the computer think it's online, but it's not really online. (The network on the commuter train I ride is notorious.) Anyway, when that happens, Live Sync decides that it should completely forget your username/password combo and I find myself constantly logging back in due to that.

Does Jake handle crappy wifi connections in a more graceful manner?