Chromium Browser Is Running Great On Wayland

[paintbynumbers]

Why is Intel doing this, what's in it for them? It's great and all, but I'm just wondering.

Also, is there any advantages to ChromeOS with this? Does Wayland use more or fewer resources to draw to the screen than whatever ChromeOS currently uses?

I believe Google may be using X as the ChromeOS display server today and Intel already has a vested interest in Wayland replacing X (they pay many of the developers). It would be good for them to get some large players in the industry to switch to Wayland.

May the more important fact is that the web browser is arguably one of the most important on a machine today. Firefox has yet to finish their port to GTK3 to allow them to run natively on Wayland.

[kaprikawn]

Why is Intel doing this, what's in it for them? It's great and all, but I'm just wondering.

Also, is there any advantages to ChromeOS with this? Does Wayland use more or fewer resources to draw to the screen than whatever ChromeOS currently uses?

[dalingrin]

I hope this will finally allow for per pixel scrolling like Windows and Mac.

[newwen]

I wonder:
- Isn't the Chromium window lacking borders? Or it is just my memory failing/an interface change? I haven't used Chromium in more than a year, so maybe I just forgot how it looked (also, I usually maximize my browser), but I believe I remember it having thicker borders.
- Why is it running without the sandbox?

I've noticed that too. In ubuntu (X.org) it is using window borders, but under wayland they're using client side decorations with no borders, which looks much better in my opinion.

[mrugiero]

I wonder:
- Isn't the Chromium window lacking borders? Or it is just my memory failing/an interface change? I haven't used Chromium in more than a year, so maybe I just forgot how it looked (also, I usually maximize my browser), but I believe I remember it having thicker borders.
- Why is it running without the sandbox?

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Chromium Browser Is Running Great On Wayland

For several months now Intel developers have been working on a new Ozone-Wayland project that allows Google's Chrome/Chromium browsers and other applications to work on Wayland. Google's Ozone component provides the windowing system / input abstraction layer that is where this implementation for Wayland is being plugged into. After much investment, the Chromium browser is now starting to run great with Wayland...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTU5NTU