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EFYTimes Interviews Matthias Ettrich: The KDE-Man

Posted by Jonathan Riddell on Wednesday 26/Mar/2008, @08:08
from the one-of-them-anyway dept.
EFYTimes has an interview with Matthias Ettrich, one of KDE's founders. He talks about the history of the project, what he thinks of KDE 4.0 and what he's currently working on in Qt. "The desktop problem has been solved many years ago. Try to compare Windows XP with KDE 3: nobody in their right mind would choose Windows over GNU/Linux based on the desktop experience alone."

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interesting
by Ian Monroe on Wednesday 26/Mar/2008, @10:06

An interesting interview, even if I already knew most of what he was talking about.

Of course now I really want to know what the "not Qt 4.5" project is. O.o

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Re: interesting by TeeZee on Wednesday 26/Mar/2008, @12:18
Re: interesting by Leiteiro on Thursday 27/Mar/2008, @15:04
Re: interesting by an hope on Saturday 29/Mar/2008, @10:20

Memory usage..
by Leo S on Wednesday 26/Mar/2008, @10:22

Its funny how one incorrect and quickly redacted measurement can convince so many people. KDE 4 certainly does not take less memory than KDE 3, and I don't think that myth is doing anyone any favours.

Ahwell. Interesting interview.

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Re: Memory usage.. by Mark Hannessen on Wednesday 26/Mar/2008, @10:41
Re: Memory usage.. by Bille on Wednesday 26/Mar/2008, @11:57

Re: Memory usage.. by Leo S on Wednesday 26/Mar/2008, @21:56

Re: Memory usage.. by Tom on Wednesday 26/Mar/2008, @12:57

Re: Memory usage.. by Anon on Wednesday 26/Mar/2008, @13:26

Re: Memory usage.. by jstaniek on Wednesday 26/Mar/2008, @15:00

Re: Memory usage.. by Anon on Wednesday 26/Mar/2008, @15:08

Re: Memory usage.. by Zack on Wednesday 26/Mar/2008, @21:16

Re: Memory usage.. by Leo S on Wednesday 26/Mar/2008, @22:05

Re: Memory usage.. by Kevin Kofler on Thursday 27/Mar/2008, @01:50

Re: Memory usage.. by Leo S on Thursday 27/Mar/2008, @09:34

Re: Memory usage.. by jstaniek on Thursday 27/Mar/2008, @02:12

Re: Memory usage.. by Leo S on Thursday 27/Mar/2008, @10:03
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Re: Memory usage.. by koos on Thursday 27/Mar/2008, @13:38

Re: Memory usage.. by Leo S on Thursday 27/Mar/2008, @13:57

Re: Memory usage.. by Anon on Thursday 27/Mar/2008, @14:11
Re: Memory usage.. by koos on Thursday 27/Mar/2008, @14:38

Re: Memory usage.. by jstaniek on Thursday 27/Mar/2008, @02:15

Re: Memory usage.. by Leo S on Thursday 27/Mar/2008, @09:29

Re: Memory usage.. by jstaniek on Thursday 27/Mar/2008, @02:15

Re: Memory usage.. by JeanPaul on Thursday 27/Mar/2008, @11:28

Re: Memory usage.. by Leo S on Thursday 27/Mar/2008, @11:49

Re: Memory usage.. by JeanPaul on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @09:49

Re: Memory usage.. by Thiago Macieira on Wednesday 26/Mar/2008, @15:47

Re: Memory usage.. by koos on Wednesday 26/Mar/2008, @18:34
Re: Memory usage.. by Leo S on Wednesday 26/Mar/2008, @22:08

Re: Memory usage.. by Segedunum on Wednesday 26/Mar/2008, @15:48

Re: Memory usage.. by Leo S on Wednesday 26/Mar/2008, @22:26

Re: Memory usage.. by Segedunum on Thursday 27/Mar/2008, @14:27

Re: Memory usage.. by Anon on Thursday 27/Mar/2008, @15:20
Re: Memory usage.. by Leo S on Thursday 27/Mar/2008, @15:36

Re: Memory usage.. by Segednum on Saturday 29/Mar/2008, @15:55

Re: Memory usage.. by xyzzzz on Sunday 30/Mar/2008, @06:53

Re: Memory usage.. by Anon on Sunday 30/Mar/2008, @06:59

Re: Memory usage.. by xyzzzz on Sunday 30/Mar/2008, @07:22

Re: Memory usage.. by Leo S on Sunday 30/Mar/2008, @12:19

End of interview giggle..
by Maarte on Wednesday 26/Mar/2008, @12:44

It made me smile that at the end of that interview, there's an error in the page ;

"Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80004005'

[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Transaction (Process ID 74) was deadlocked on lock resources with another process and has been chosen as the deadlock victim. Rerun the transaction.

/efytimes/fullnews.asp, line 620"

Qt4.4 does however look to be a remarkable step forwards particularly in terms of how the UI is rendered. Looking forwards to KDE 4.1

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Typo
by Anon on Wednesday 26/Mar/2008, @13:06

Article title says "EYFTimes" instead EFYTimes.

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by Jeremy on Wednesday 26/Mar/2008, @13:39

Its a good interview, one of the best in awhile. Though, I'm concerned on how bias he was when answering questions.

"The desktop problem has been solved many years ago. Try to compare Windows XP with KDE 3: nobody in their right mind would choose Windows over GNU/Linux based on the desktop experience alone."

When I had Kubuntu installed with KDE 3.5 and a regular 15 year old friend over. He started to get frustrated while using KDE and wanted to use XP again and luckily I had a duel boot. It shows something, though hopefully he will have better reviews with KDE 4 but until alot of people like XP. There have been others, I have two other friends that hate when I have linux installed.

Also, can't wait for that hidden project. I hate how he said that, thats one irritating tease.

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Re: Insert title here. by andy on Thursday 27/Mar/2008, @13:52

He is cute & good-looking man.
by Lays Shoon on Wednesday 26/Mar/2008, @15:35

This was the first time I saw his photo.
He is a hunk.

:-p

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Re: He is cute & good-looking man. by NabLa on Wednesday 26/Mar/2008, @16:37
Re: He is cute & good-looking man. by Leo S on Wednesday 26/Mar/2008, @22:28
Re: He is cute & good-looking man. by MarcG on Wednesday 26/Mar/2008, @23:53
Re: He is cute & good-looking man. by Sebastian on Thursday 27/Mar/2008, @06:56
Re: He is cute & good-looking man. by JC on Thursday 27/Mar/2008, @09:11
Re: He is cute & good-looking man. by Concerned Citizen on Thursday 27/Mar/2008, @23:22

Real world scenario
by andy on Friday 28/Mar/2008, @16:08

The problem is not a fresh installation, the problem is always a corrupted one you have in actual use, misconfiguration etc.

Windows loses strong performance and user experience when you install third party tools. It becomes a virus mess.

With KDE the main problem was sound configuration, quality issues, context menues and strange popup screens.

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Teasing is good :)
by Max on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @13:51

Creates more buzz around the project.

Thanks for posting this.

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