Google Chrome 42 Brings The Push API & Extras

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Google Chrome 42 Brings The Push API & Extras

Google today announced the Chrome/Chromium 42 web-browser reaching the stable channel and with it comes many improvements...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Google-Chrome-42-Stable

[uid313]

The UI of Chromium looks very good on Windows and on Chrome OS.
But under Linux it looks terrible.

Ever since they switched from Qt to their own Aura toolkit I think.

[jagd]

In particular, C hrome 42

should be ... Chrome 42...

[tmpdir]

The UI of Chromium looks very good on Windows and on Chrome OS.
But under Linux it looks terrible.

Ever since they switched from Qt to their own Aura toolkit I think.

If my memory serves me well the Auro toolkit actually tries to use the native toolkit of your desktop environment. So an terrible looking chromium probably means you're on an ugly desktop to start with? are you by any chance an KDE user? ^^

[reub2000]

If my memory serves me well the Auro toolkit actually tries to use the native toolkit of your desktop environment. So an terrible looking chromium probably means you're on an ugly desktop to start with? are you by any chance an KDE user? ^^

The default theme looks the same no matter which DE is used. It's ugly and doesn't integrate at all.

[Luke_Wolf]

If my memory serves me well the Auro toolkit actually tries to use the native toolkit of your desktop environment. So an terrible looking chromium probably means you're on an ugly desktop to start with? are you by any chance an KDE user? ^^

You're thinking of VCL and XUL. Aura is Google's ground up NIH hardware accelerated GUI toolkit. Although I want to point out here that VCL and XUL need to die in a fire, and be replaced with something that either handles themes properly, or just use GTK or Qt...

[Hermit]

The UI of Chromium looks very good on Windows and on Chrome OS.
But under Linux it looks terrible.

Ever since they switched from Qt to their own Aura toolkit I think.

They never used Qt, it was Gtk based before Aura. Though Aura looks ugly, most of what you see on a browser is the Web page content so the UI toolkit matters little.

[uid313]

If my memory serves me well the Auro toolkit actually tries to use the native toolkit of your desktop environment. So an terrible looking chromium probably means you're on an ugly desktop to start with? are you by any chance an KDE user? ^^

Ah, yes it looks better when using the default Ubuntu theme.
When using a custom theme it looks rather bad though and doesn't feel like it blend in smooth.

When I click the "hamburger" button in Chromium the menu entries are much bigger than in other applications and have larger text and more margin/padding. It just doesn't feel native.

[Hermit]

You're thinking of VCL and XUL. Aura is Google's ground up NIH hardware accelerated GUI toolkit. Although I want to point out here that VCL and XUL need to die in a fire, and be replaced with something that either handles themes properly, or just use GTK or Qt...

Though VCL and XUL are abominations. It's understandable why OpenOffice and Mozilla chose to use them because of the cross-platform nature of Open/LibreOfice and Firefox. On Linux they use Gtk as the backend anyway. But nowadays people should just use Qt if they want to do cross-platform.