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Google To Replace GTK+ With Its Own Aura In Chrome

Posted by timothy on from the your-aura-is-always-with-you dept.

sfcrazy writes "Google's Chromium team is working on an alternative of Gtk+ for the browser, called Aura. Elliot Glaysher, a Google developer explains, 'We aim to launch the Aura graphics stack on Linux in M35. Aura is a cross-platform graphics system, and the Aura frontend will replace the current GTK+ frontend.' The Free Software community is debating: is Google trying to do Canonical? Couldn't Google just switch to Qt, which is becoming an industry standard?"

6 of 240 comments (clear)

  1. Re:behind the aura, behind the aura, behind the au by neiras · · Score: 3, Funny

    Google Chrome also uses Blink-182.

    Woo hoo! So they lie and they're easy?

  2. Re:Just for a browser? by ChunderDownunder · · Score: 4, Funny

    there are very, very few applications that could possibly warrant the development of a new widget set, but that a web browser is certainly among them.

    There is only XUL.

  3. Re: Just for a browser? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    It is now (LGPL). Time to move back?

  4. Why not build the Chrome UI as a web page? by DrR0b · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why do they need a GUI toolkit at all? Why don't they build the Chrome UI in HTML/JS/CSS?

  5. Re:As a Qt fan by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    sorry , but who/what is AC ????

  6. Re:As a Qt fan by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Look man, GTK (That's GIMP Tool Kit) was written in the 90s as a replacement for Motif. (If Motif doesn't mean anything to you, that should be your first clue to fuck off. If it does mean something to you, I'll have to assume the brain damage was permanent and severe.).