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HappinessNow
July 14th, 2009, 06:35 AM
Any guesses on which DE/WM that Google will use on Chrome OS? or which will it be most like or emulate?

Evilwm
Ratpoison
Mosquito
Golem
e17
Compiz
KDE
Ion
Gnome
other

manualqr
July 14th, 2009, 06:36 AM
it's own ;)

they said so in their blog

PurposeOfReason
July 14th, 2009, 06:36 AM
I wouldn't put it past them to write their own.

HappinessNow
July 14th, 2009, 06:42 AM
it's own ;)

they said so in their blogyes but which will it be most like or emulate?

PurposeOfReason
July 14th, 2009, 07:11 AM
yes but which will it be most like or emulate?
None. Android looks like nothing nor does chrome. I just hope you can still choose your own because I would love to run chrome os, but with my WM/DE of choice.

HappinessNow
July 14th, 2009, 10:38 AM
None. Android looks like nothing nor does chrome. I just hope you can still choose your own because I would love to run chrome os, but with my WM/DE of choice.

I seriously doubt they would start from scratch.

manualqr
July 14th, 2009, 02:37 PM
<snip>
The software architecture is simple — Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel. For application developers, the web is the platform. [1]
<snip>


they just might start from scratch.. But if I had to guess, they'd do something openboxy, perhaps.

[1] http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html

Tibuda
July 14th, 2009, 02:49 PM
they just might start from scratch.. But if I had to guess, they'd do something openboxy, perhaps.

[1] http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html

They like minimal designs, so I also think Chrome WM would look like the *boxes WMs. But it is too early to speculate.

RiceMonster
July 14th, 2009, 02:51 PM
I wouldn't put it past them to write their own.

/thread.

Also, in b4 merge with main thread.

.Maleficus.
July 14th, 2009, 03:24 PM
I'd say something like gOS (http://www.thinkgos.com/cloud/index.html). We'll find out though.

HappinessNow
July 15th, 2009, 03:03 AM
I'd say something like gOS (http://www.thinkgos.com/cloud/index.html). We'll find out though.
let's hope nothing like gOS, that would be horrid

djmh
July 15th, 2009, 04:13 AM
well....
if it looked like gos, but had great functionality...
it was fast...
and worked out of the box...
i wouldnt complain, i think gos is a great idea that just needs someone to make work really well to be taken seriously...google could be the one to do it.

HappinessNow
July 15th, 2009, 08:50 AM
well....
if it looked like gos, but had great functionality...
it was fast...
and worked out of the box...
i wouldnt complain, i think gos is a great idea that just needs someone to make work really well to be taken seriously...google could be the one to do it.
Yes, but it is pretty much a guarantee that Google Chrome OS will look nothing like gOS, there really is NO correlation between the two, not even on a theoretical level.