Chromebook users will now have access to a fully-fledged ‘window manager’ in Chrome OS. Previously were running all applications full-screen in the browser, but now it seems that Chrome OS and more on a traditional desktop interface.
The new released window manager, the Aura will get a taskbar, a desktop with wallpaper and shortcuts to apps, reports a Google fanblog. That there is a window-manager in development, was already a well-known, but Google has only now the interface in the latest Dev channel version, 19.0.1048.17, to be found. The update also includes support for tar, gz and bzip2 archives as well as better support for more than one monitor is added.
The move by Google to a full-fledged window manager is remarkable. Since the beginning of the project gave Google purposefully no usual interface, since, with Chrome OS, the traditional model of an operating system wanted to replace. The browser had to serve as an interface for the whole operating system. The developers are now out there on the come back.
