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.
Mathias went to School in Beilstein, as he lived with his parents in Oberstenfeld, not too far away from the place he was born. He passed the 'Abitur' in '91 and has been a very pleasant schoolmate for his fellows.
Ettrich studied for his MSc in Computer Science at the Wilhelm Schickard In...
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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.
Mathias went to School in Beilstein, as he lived with his parents in Oberstenfeld, not too far away from the place he was born. He passed the 'Abitur' in '91 and has been a very pleasant schoolmate for his fellows.
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 Qt Software on the Qt graphical widget toolkit and the Qt Creator IDE.
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...
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