From the old british kingdom, Tink brings to you this week the feelings and the thoughts of Chris Howells. One of the youngest members of our community, Chris is an excellent proof of the kind of diversity and richness that KDE's people bring to the project. In the distant time of glory and legend when KDE got started, Chris was too young to even care.
In this week's episode of The People Behind KDE, you can learn all about
Dimitris Kamenopoulos.
Dimitris provides internationalisation (i18n) and localisation (l10n) of KDE into Greek. Rush to the interview, if you want to find out how to spend time on KDE without having your girlfriend complain.
Our friend Raphael Bauduin has interviewed KDE bindings guru, Richard Dale, on FOSDEM.Org. "The bindings are regenerated for each KDE release. I take a patch of the manual edits that were needed for the previous release. Then run the new headers through kalyptus, and apply the patch of manual edits.
Many KDE developers know that Lubos Lunak is a serious developer with a strong grasp of C++ and a penchant for posting helpful hints on the development mailing lists. KDE users will be happy to find out that Lubos is the developer behind the popular KHotKeys, a tool that has received high marks since its first appearance in KDE 1 and that is now a gem in Kicker's menu
Christian Couder is a contributor to the KDevelop project. He is working on integrating Eiffel language development support into the third iteration of KDevelop (codename: Gideon). Christian answers Tink's questions in this week's edition of the People Behind KDE.
Meni Livne, who lives in Israel, is KDE's Hebrew localization coordinator and the maintainer of the
KDE Israel website. You can read all about him in this weeks episode of
People behind KDE. On a
snownote, Tink and Konqi have made a cute
Those of you interested in the interoperability of KDE with handheld computers will already be familiar with KDE developer Adriaan de Groot, current maintainer of KPilot, and guest of this week's instalment of the People Behind KDE interviews.
Harri Porten is one of the most active KDE developers (working, amongst other things, on the Javascript part in Konqueror) and is also a Trolltech employee. In this interview, Harri talks to OSNews covering topics such as Qt 3, licensing, KDE, and more. "Vector graphics support is already present in Qt 3.0. The QPicture class is able to read and write static SVG files.
Linuxlookup.com is running a nice interview with Andreas Pour, Chairman of the KDE League, Dot editor ("Dre") and KDE evangelist, about the latest KDE release, the KDE developers' attitude towards Open Source and business use of KDE and KOffice.
Philippe Fremy has conducted the
first part of his interview with
Trolltech's President Eirik Eng.
Read about Trolltech's revenues, employees, partnerships, licensing, origins
and more below.
Trolltech Questions