Saturday, February 14, 2009

Noooooooooooo!

Google Chrome for GNU/Linux will use GTK+ and not Qt. Why would Google choose GTK+ over Qt? Qt would integrate better with WebKit as both are written in C++ and have similar lineage. WebKit was initially a fork of KHTML, KDE's rendering engine, and KDE uses the Qt toolkit. Another reason to use Qt is it has better themeing support than GTK+, it'll look native on KDE and it'll look native on Gnome. Here are some screenshots of Arora web browser that uses Qt, it easily integrates with the underlying desktop environment.

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