About a couple months back, Google unveiled Project Athena that is intended to bring a new User Interface and Window Manager to Chrome OS. After then we seldom heard about advancement in the project. Only till now.
"Athena is a brand new project the Chromium OS team is experimenting with in order to bring a new kind of user experience."
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| Window Manager on Athena build |
What can be made out from the look is that it bears much resemblance to the Android L's recent apps view. Windows stacked over each other. The look sure makes us think of more resemblance of Android L to be ported to Chrome OS like the notifications. Syncing your Android's notifications on your Chromebook with the new Android L notification bar UI would be so cool. That's just a personal preference though but looking at this UI forces me to think if it would be more difficult now to navigate through windows in Athena when you'll first have to go to Window Manager and then select the window than what we already use and are accustomed to. Changing tabs is much more easier by just clicking the desired tab instead of this approach (If ever this approach is undertaken).
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| Recent Apps screen on Android L |
We still can't be so sure as to what Google's Chromium OS team has planned for Athena but I personally think Google will surely come up with a totally different method of interacting with your browser. After all its the same company that has showed the potential of a browser to be used as an entire OS.
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