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Re:Fake Steve Jobs on Chrome OS by neilc on Wednesday July 08, 2009 @11:01PM (#695136)
Rumour has it that Google wants to ditch X. If that is the case, no other GUIed nix software will run without a rewrite.*

Not exactly: few modern GUI applications are written to use Xlib directly. If Google ditched X for a new window system and then ported GTK+, Qt, and a few other widget toolkits to their window system, a lot of software would run with relatively few changes.

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Re:Fake Steve Jobs on Chrome OS by Raphael_Amiard on Thursday July 09, 2009 @04:15AM (#695462)
"and then ported GTK+, Qt, and a few other widget toolkits to their window system"

Wich is obviously done in an afternoon :)

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Re:Fake Steve Jobs on Chrome OS by jp_sc on Thursday July 09, 2009 @09:43AM (#695830)
Of course not. It takes an entire weekend. ;)

Seriously now, is hard but doable. They could start by hiring the SkyOS guy: http://skyos.org/?q=node/650

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Re:Fake Steve Jobs on Chrome OS by shiranaihito on Thursday July 09, 2009 @09:32AM (#695805)
Yes, and so that everything Just Works :p
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