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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:As a Qt fan by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    I agree. GTK is disgusting crap that tries to cram every bad design decision of every platform it works on into one horrible framework to make the absolute worst GUI toolkit ever conceived. I strongly suspect that it was a product of the line of thought that lead the GCC internals to be so convoluted: some bullshit paranoia that proprietary vendors might make something nice out of it. The GCC are feeling the effects of that bad decision as LLVM\Clang eats their lunch and are just now beginning to improve their design. I sincerely hope that the GTK devs will react the same way and try to salvage the heap of crap they manage.