14 DAY TRIAL // Chrome OS evangelist François Beaufort is back this week with some more excellent news from the Chrome OS Canary channel, where all of Google's Chrome OS team experiments take place.
François Beaufort is now teasing Chromebooks owners with an upcoming version of the Chrome OS launcher that is touch-friendly and currently resides in the Canary channel, and this time there's more than a screenshot, as the developer took his time to put together a nice video to show us the new Chrome OS launcher in action.
If you can't wait any longer until the Launcher UI hits the Dev or Beta channels, or why not even the stable one someday, you can switch to use the experimental Chrome Canary and enable the "chrome://flags/#enable-fullscreen-app-list" flag and restart Google Chrome to activate the touch-friendly launcher.
"The Chrome OS team is experimenting with a Touch-Friendly version of the launcher in Canary channel," said François Beaufort in his latest Google+ post, where his also reveals the source code. "Enable the chrome://flags/#enable-fullscreen-app-list flag, restart Chrome, and press the Search key to see in action."
More goodies are coming to Chromebooks soon
As reported last month, the Chrome OS team over at Google is quite busy lately adding all sorts of quality features to the Linux-based operating system used in today's Chromebook computers, and besides the new launcher, users could soon enjoy new power management settings to control the lid-closed and idle behaviors.
A long-anticipated Night Light feature is also coming to Chromebooks soon with automatic "Sunset to Sunrise" mode, and it also looks like we'll be getting refreshed sign-in/lock screens and a new Certificate section in the page info pop-up for the SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certificate aficionado.
