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Chromium Adds Support For FreeDesktop Secret Service & Better Wayland Window Dragging (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] leopold@lemmy.kde.social 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This isn't something to complain about, IMO. Chromium is a popular app and it is a good thing to see work on supporting FDO protocols and improving Wayland support. I prefer Firefox myself, but it's nice that Linux support isn't just an afterthought for Google either and more importantly it trickles down to the countless apps on Linux that depend on Chromium in some form (usually through Electron). I personally use several, including but not limited to Slack, Discord, r2modman and VSCodium.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

To be fair, it would be weird for Google NOT to support Linux, as I believe they use Debian Testing internally.

[–] leopold@lemmy.kde.social 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, I mean Google caring about Linux isn't exactly breaking news. We knew that already. Android and ChromeOS both exist and as web company they kinda have to care about the OS that by and large runs the web. But this is Phoronix and they'll make articles about anything as long as they think as it'll get engagement. "Chromium" and "Wayland" are pretty good buzzwords as far as that goes, thus this article. My point is more so that maybe it isn't productive to have every acknowledgment of Chromium's continued existence be overwhelmingly negative regardless of context.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 5 points 1 month ago

To be fair to Phoronix, I hardly think they're the worst offender in Linux space; I find their Linux coverage to be the least terrible online. They cover new kernel and software developments pretty well.

Other Linux-focused sites seem to mostly consist of clickbait "Ditch Windows 11 headlines", fleeting Linux apps, explaining something that there are already vast amounts of quality articles for, and/or thinly-veiled advertisements.

That is not to say Phoronix is perfect; I don't necessarily enjoy having to run my ad blocker there. However, it's not like it's different on other sites. Comparatively, I find Phoronix to be a decent quality Linux outlet.

[–] CrypticCoffee@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Chromium can fuck off. FF is king.

[–] Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, I want my passwords unencrypted in the browser, where they belong!

[–] D_Air1@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

Cool, while a lot of people are complaining. For those of us that still keep a chromium based browser around for the those few times where you need compatibility. These small improvements are very much welcome.

[–] simonced@lemmy.one 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I don't understand what is the point of this. Isn't it the job of the WM to position windows and stuff? Apps have to do it themself now?

[–] Zamundaaa@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago

This is about dragging a tab out of or into a browser window, and letting the compositor know about it, so it can move and place the window accordingly. Apps don't get to place windows themselves.

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How can a window manager position things if the program doesn't communicate with it correctly?

[–] simonced@lemmy.one 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I used to do apps with QT (as well as with Java) and when creating a window, I only needed to say, "new window of that preferred size please", then the engine would make the window of that size if possible. Now, maybe QT did things more in depth behind the scene, I don't know.

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago

I kind of think that's QTs whole deal right? An abstraction layer that allows for devs to not get stuck in the weeds implementing it all manually.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If Qt or Java is doing it, then that's still your program and not the WM, though?

[–] simonced@lemmy.one 1 points 1 month ago

In those cases, I agree. But for a tiling window manager like w3m, I don't see the application having a say in position and location. Hence I didn't think that the app has so much to do with creating windows. Just my thought.

[–] Thann@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Booo

[–] Thann@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

Chrom bad