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1 Ash | |
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3 Ash is the "Aura Shell", the window manager and system UI for Chrome OS. | |
4 Ash uses the views UI toolkit (e.g. views::View, views::Widget, etc.) backed | |
5 by the aura native widget and layer implementations. | |
6 | |
7 Ash sits below chrome in the dependency graph (i.e. it cannot depend on code | |
8 in //chrome). It has a few dependencies on //content, but these are isolated | |
9 in their own module in //ash/content. This allows targets like ash_unittests | |
10 to build more quickly. | |
11 | |
12 Tests | |
13 ----- | |
14 Most tests should be added to the ash_unittests target. Tests that rely on | |
15 //content should be added to ash_content_unittests, but these should be rare. | |
16 | |
17 Tests can bring up most of the ash UI and simulate a login session by deriving | |
18 from AshTestBase. This is often needed to test code that depends on ash::Shell | |
19 and the controllers it owns. | |
20 | |
1 Mus+ash | 21 Mus+ash |
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3 Ash is transitioning from using aura to using mus. During the | 23 Ash is transitioning to use the mus window server and gpu process, found in |
4 transition period ash has support for both aura and mus. In order to | 24 //services/ui. Ash continues to use aura, but aura is backed by mus. Code to |
5 work with both toolkits ash has a porting layer. This layer exists in | 25 support mus is found in //ash/mus. There should be relatively few differences |
6 ash/common. As portions of ash are converted to the porting layer they | 26 between the pure aura and the aura-mus versions of ash. |
7 should move to ash/common. DEPS files may also be used to ensure new | 27 |
8 dependencies do not get added. | 28 Ash is also transitioning to run as a mojo service in its own process. This |
29 means that code in chrome cannot call into ash directly, but must use the mojo | |
30 interfaces in //ash/public/interfaces. | |
31 | |
32 Out-of-process Ash is referred to as "mash" (mojo ash). In-process ash is | |
33 referred to as "classic ash". Ash can run in either mode depending on the | |
34 --mash command line flag. | |
sky
2017/04/10 16:21:19
optional: you might also mention --mus.
James Cook
2017/04/10 16:40:28
Done.
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36 Historical notes | |
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38 Ash shipped on Windows for a couple years to support Windows 8 Metro mode. | |
39 Windows support was removed in 2016. | |
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