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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?"

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  1. 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.

  2. 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?