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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:Someone please explain by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Double-post, but why is this in the news now? All of the linked design docs are from Dec 2011. This stuff is 2 years old.

    It's going live now. The stuff has been experimental for that time, it's just now being pushed into Release builds.

    Fun fact is that Aura is already enabled on Windows, this is why scrollbars, buttons, combos and everything else now looks like shit and are missing usability features that every other scrollbar on the system has.