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Matthias Ettrich (born 14 June 1972 in Bietigheim-Bissingen, southern Germany) is a computer scientist known for his contributions to the KDE and LyX projects.
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Career
Ettrich studied for his MSc in Computer Science at the Wilhelm Schickard Institute for Computer Science at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen.
He currently resides in Berlin, Germany. He works for Trolltech as Director of Software Development, with responsibility for the Qt graphical widget toolkit and its development team.
Free software projects
Ettrich founded and furthered the LyX project in 1995, initially conceived as a university term project. LyX is a graphical frontend to LaTeX.
Since LyX's main target platform was Linux, he started to explore different ways to improve the graphical user interface, which ultimately led him to the KDE project. Ettrich founded KDE in 1996, when he proposed on Usenet a "consistant, nice looking free desktop-environment" [sic] for Unix-like systems using Qt as its widget toolkit.[1]
References
External links
- The People Behind KDE: Interview with Matthias Ettrich (2000)
- The People Behind KDE: Interview with Matthias Ettrich (2004)
- EFY News Network: Interview with Matthias Ettrich (March 2008)
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