Chromium is an open source Web Browser project from Google that has a growing community supporting of it - don't get confuse with Chrome Web Browser, let's say this: both are siblings, just Chromium is the open source one, when anyone may contribute to it development, many people says it is more secure -, so, latest news from this project is the decision to replace GTK+ support, instead of it, the project will use Aura as it default window manager.
Aura is a cross platform graphical system written for Google Developers and the main goal is to offer rich visual and large scale animations and transitions only just hardware acceleration. So Gtk+ and Aura are cross platform, Gtk+ project has many years of experience in the Linux boxes and Aura is relatively newer and under development, but I guess some of the facts to use Aura would be these:
1. Gtk+ is more difficult to set up for Windows
2. non centralized support
3. lack of documentation
4. years ago I read a comparison between Gtk+ vrs QT and the people describes Gtk+ as a "hodge podge"
So maybe the decision from Google to write a window manager from scratch would be hard to support it at the beginning, but right now it seems to be the best one.
So, for the final user -as you and me- this new gives us the opportunity to have better graphical rendering, rich graph content, faster CAD and 3D if we choose to use Chromium project when Aura is in the stable channel, so put an eye on this.
Finally, if you want to try it on unstable, from a terminal in Linux just type:
sudo apt-get install google-chrome-unstable
More info about Aura here:
http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/aura-desktop-window-manager
Cheers
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