Google To Replace GTK+ With Its Own Aura In Chrome

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?"

Re:behind the aura, behind the aura, behind the au

[neiras]

Google Chrome also uses Blink-182.

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

Re:Just for a browser?

[ChunderDownunder]

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 [mozilla.org].

Re: Just for a browser?

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Why not build the Chrome UI as a web page?

[DrR0b]

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

Re:As a Qt fan

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re:As a Qt fan

[Anonymous Coward]

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.).