 Thread beginning with comment 348944 Does it really matter? by
elsewhere on Sat 14th Feb 2009 17:58 UTC Member since:  If
Chrome's choice of GTK upsets anyone, there is the freely
available option to not use it. Since it's going to be open, I'd
frankly prefer that the DE's take a look at the goods and
incorporate the good parts into their own native browsers.
Google is probably hoping for downstream contributions to
various front-ends, but there's nothing to say that downstream
can't work with the Chrome backend and collaborate with
upstream.  KDE already comes with Webkit integrated now. Just
from playing with the Arora browser I can see a remarkable
improvement in rendering and consistency over KHTML. If Chrome
can help point the KDE or Nokia team to providing a low-
footprint browser that's high on performance and low on bloat
and extras, and with much better compatibility that the poor,
beleaguered KHTML Konqueror I'm currently using, I'd see that as
being much more valuable to the KDE/Qt community.  Gnom