Chromium looking great on Linux
filed in Opinion, Software on Jun.23, 2009
I’ve just received a new update today from the Chromium daily PPA for Ubuntu, and I can say that it’s progressing at a good rate to integrate itself into the Linux desktop. Here’s a screenshot:
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As you can see, it already has the minimize, maximize and close buttons (top right) that are fully integrated into Chromium,, no more Gnome window borders (you can still toggle this) that make the browser look ugly. Great Job!
Here’s another screenshot with Gnome’s window border:
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Looks ugly uh!? So, in your opinion which one looks better?
June 23rd, 2009 on 10:21 pm
It’s looking better with every build. Incidentally, how did you manage to get it to run without the WM’s window border? I’m using the snapshot builds from http://build.chromium.org (3.0.191.0 build 19064 at this writing) because the packaged builds from the PPA crash on me. Is there an option I’m overlooking for turning off the window border? (Incidentally, if it’s ‘Reset to default theme’ then I guess I’m out of luck; pushing that button crashes Chromium on my system.)
Thanks for the news.
June 23rd, 2009 on 10:23 pm
LOL. Never mind. I found it.
Thanks again!
June 23rd, 2009 on 10:37 pm
That was fast
Something that I didn’t mention in this post is that the Options dialog has been improved under “Personal Stuff”, this was introduced before the window border thing and I first saw this about 3-4 days ago.
Thanks for commenting!
Cheers