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Callaway: Chromium: Why it isn't in Fedora yet as a proper package

Callaway: Chromium: Why it isn't in Fedora yet as a proper package

Posted Dec 2, 2009 2:34 UTC (Wed) by Sho (subscriber, #8956)
In reply to: Callaway: Chromium: Why it isn't in Fedora yet as a proper package by SEJeff
Parent article: Callaway: Chromium: Why it isn't in Fedora yet as a proper package

While Google uses Skia as their backend for WebKit, and presumably for parts of the UI, parts like the menus, settings dialogs and so on do use GTK+.


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Callaway: Chromium: Why it isn't in Fedora yet as a proper package

Posted Dec 2, 2009 14:08 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

Yeah.
Chrome on Linux is definitely a GTK application.

from:
http://groups.google.com/group/chromium- dev/browse_thread/thread/d86faf0eff41b998/5e74522ae540adcd? lnk=gst&q=Why+is+Linux+Chrome+so+fast%3F#5e74522ae540adcd

Off the top of my head, the tabstrip and the floating bookmark bar are the only pieces of the linux UI drawn with skia.

And using GTK was one of the smarter moves on Google's part with the Linux port.

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