Harsh Words From Google On Linux Development 948
jeevesbond writes "The alpha version of Google Chrome is now available for GNU/Linux. Google Chrome developer and former Firefox lead Ben Goodger has some problems with the platform though. His complaints range from the lack of a standardised UI toolkit, inconsistencies across applications, the lack of a unified and comprehensive HIG, to GTK not being a very compelling toolkit. With Adobe getting twitchy about the glibc fork and previously describing the various audio systems as welcome to the jungle, is it time to concentrate on consolidation and standardisation in GNU/Linux in general, and the desktop in particular?"
Re:Um.... (Score:3, Funny)
Linux has GUI toolkits.....loads of them!
Re:No Link to Actual Content (Score:5, Funny)
"Alternatively, you could have binged it."
Yeah, if I wanted a snarky answer. http://www.eternaldusk.com/images/screenshots/chandlerbing.png [eternaldusk.com]
apple (Score:3, Funny)
Should've started on the osx version instead!
*impatient*
Re:Um.... (Score:3, Funny)
GTK isn't as nice as everyone makes it out to be. Basically what everyone has been doing is talking red hat, and suse and making their product work on that. You can't "standardize" Linux because the 700 or so distros can't agree.
Fixed that for you.
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Re:Um.... (Score:5, Funny)
Can you please submit the patch upstream so we don't all have to fix it ourselves on our own copies. Thanks.
Re:Um.... (Score:3, Funny)
Try openSUSE and the latest KDE before jumping over to Vista.
I was going to say that if someone actually wants to switch to Vista (Vista! Not XP, not 7, not OS X, but Vista of all things!), they're a lost cause and can't be reasoned with.
But I have to say, suggesting someone like that try KDE has a certain kind of logic to it...
Re:Um.... (Score:1, Funny)
No two browsers look alike. I happen to like Google Chrome's look and feel. To me, it's way superior to IE's.
If a horse ate some hay, stumbled into an oven and pooped a brick, then that brick was hit by a garbage truck it would still look nicer than IE.
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Re:It's been time for YEARS (Score:1, Funny)
"It was time ten years ago when Linux was first gaining real momentum in that area. I remember posting Slashdot comments about it and getting told Linux was about "choice" and that if I didn't like it, I should contribute code. Ten years later, even Google is bashing Linux for it."
I tell Google that Linux is about choice and if they don't like it they should contribute code, then.
Re:Um.... (Score:3, Funny)
They are full of them, and they're full of tossers who believe that Ubuntu's 'market share' amounts to a hill of beans.
Whoa! Slow down there Sparky. Didn't you see the netcraft survey last week? We just hit 9 beans!