This week’s suggested reading about Google Chrome OS
Chrome OS gets a desktop feel with new ‘Aura’ interface :: InfoWorld
The goal of the Aura project is to create “a new desktop window manager and shell environment with modern capabilities,” the project team explains, with a user interface that offers “rich visuals, large-scale animated transitions, and effects that can be produced only with the assistance of hardware acceleration.” The cross-platform software apparently delivers a traditional desktop, a taskbar known as “the shelf,” and an app launcher. Rather than assuming that users will always want a full-screen view of whatever they’re looking at, one page at a time, there is the option to resize, move, and v...
