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Waiting for Google Chrome

Waiting for Google Chrome

Posted Jun 4, 2009 22:50 UTC (Thu) by smoogen (subscriber, #97)
In reply to: Waiting for Google Chrome by jimparis
Parent article: Waiting for Google Chrome

No they aren't. The Freedom of Free Software is you can mess with it to make it look like how you want it. However it also is the freedom of a developert to say "I want it to look like X no matter what."


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Waiting for Google Chrome

Posted Jun 6, 2009 13:56 UTC (Sat) by Los__D (guest, #15263) [Link]

That is very true, but it is also a bit sad that they are spending extra time to remove the best thing about GTK+ (and QT for that matter); making things look consistent.

Now Chrome looks alien, and so less will want to use it (at least I know that I wont).

Waiting for Google Chrome

Posted Jun 6, 2009 20:33 UTC (Sat) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]

You're right, it's not a freedom issue.

It's just a stupid UI decision issue.

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