[Development] Google Chrome Aura overlaps with Qt abstractions?

[Robert Knight]

This is UI toolkit plus windowing abstraction layer as I understand it.

Converting Chrome terminology to Qt:

'Views' => Qt widgets (QPushButton etc.)
'Aura' => The foundations of QWidget (event routing, alien widgets,
the backing store, QPlatform* classes)
'Ash' => A window manager. The front-end of ChromeOS.


On 13 March 2014 12:49, Mandeep Sandhu <mandeepsandhu.chd at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm confused....the Aura page states:
>
> "The goal is to produce a new desktop window manager and shell
> environment with modern capabilities."
>
> Are they making a KDE/GNOME equivalent or is this a new UI toolkit i.e
> a Qt/Gtk equivalent?
>
> I thought it was the later....but the statement above sounds a little confusing.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 6:02 PM, Jaroslaw Staniek <staniek at kde.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Google Chrome launches the Aura graphics stack on Linux in M35.
>> Popular note is that Google would have better check existing options such as Qt.
>> There's an interesting remark, perhaps someone cares to share thoughts?
>>
>> "Aura is a lot more than a UI toolkit.  it provides a unified
>> composting layer.  that isn't possible with using just UI toolkits."
>>
>> Source: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chromium-dev/Zpu9801pPRc
>>
>> --
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