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by dijit 692 days ago
I've been nerd sniped and am trawling through the code trying to understand what this means.

Apparently there is something called a "Birch Bar" which I've never heard of, it seems to be related to calendar events... which, is weird as I have never seen a native calendar in chrome.

https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/chromium/chromium/-/blob/...
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gavinsyancey 692 days ago
I think that's part of the ChromeOS window manager. Note that the file you posted is in the "ash" namespace.

> Ash is the “Aura Shell”, the window manager and system UI for Chrome OS.

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/refs/he...

I'd guess someone at Google decided to use tree-related codenames for ash components :)

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graypegg 692 days ago
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/lkgr/as...

    “Shelf party” was an Easter-egg feature that made shelf icons fly around the screen. It did not launch and was removed in June 2023.
Now I want to see if I can find a May 2023 build of chromium with a --enable-shelf-party flag.
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