Chromium running on Mir is the first and biggest step towards running Chromium in Unity 8
| In a bid to ensure a diverse browser ecosystem for the future of Ubuntu, the Chromium browser has now been ported to Mir. Canonical is planning to bring the new display server Mir along with the Ubuntu 14.04 operating system slated to release this year. Chromium is the open source web browser project from which Google Chrome draws its source code. |  |
"As an Ubuntu developer, focused on the Ubuntu Touch mobile story, this is even more exciting though! Chromium running on Mir is the first and biggest step towards running Chromium in Unity 8, ensuring a diverse browser ecosystem for the future of Ubuntu", Mir team engineer, Robert Carr was quoted as saying. The porting involves an Ozone port that comprises of a toolkit abstraction Layer for Aura. "We can think about Ozone for Aura much the way we think of QPA for Qt. Of course as many of you have heard before 'There are unique requirements'. Ozone's design is influenced heavily by the multi process architecture of Chromium and the requirements of ChromeOS". Carr added.
Earlier we reported that some of Linux's most popular games will now run natively on Ubuntu's Mir display server. This has been made possible after Simple Direct Media layer (SDL) gained support for Mir. It must be noted that SDL is a part of many high-profile games and the number keeps rising with each day.
SDL is a cross-platform development library that provides game developers with a simplified way to access audio and input devices through OpenGL. With the versatility and simplicity it brings to the table, SDL is currently being used in more than 700 games. So much so that the list also includes the Linux ports of popular titles available on Valve’s Steam client and via the Humble Bundle. With Mir and SDL together, games using it will run natively under Unity 8 on Mir. SDL also supports Wayland in a similar way.
