Public code reviews started this week on Qt platform support for Google’s Chromium open-source browser code.
It looks like Google is at least evaluating the prospects of Qt toolkit support for the Chromium/Chrome UI.
Chrome might get a Qt-based UI option before it even gets video decoding acceleration on Linux that doesn’t require custom builds or hacks. Possibly good news for KDE users.
Really good news for people like me that blacklists gtk
Isn’t Chromium using that Aura contraption of theirs and dropped GTK years ago?
Chromium has a “native” GTK theme, meaning that the browser will adapt to e.g. the color palette and configured set of title bar action buttons (minimize, maximize, etc.). It seems to also query for the font configuration.
The UI itself is drawn by their custom toolkit but much of the preferences will be queried from GTK.
So it looks like Qt is edging GTK after years of detrimental rivalry, at least from Google’s point of view.
What made you think so?
Hopefully somebody will then fix the Chrome pipewire integration so it uses Chromiums own dbus library instead of GIO.
Chromium is coming home!
It all started with KHTML and KJS in the Qt based KDE project.
Apple and later Google transformed them into WebKit, then Google forked WebKit/WebCore into Blink for Chrome .. and now Chromium gets support for Qt again.