Johan Thelin, of Foundations of Qt Development fame, has been interviewed by Dr Dobbs about Qt and Qtopia. In the 11-minute podcast, he "shares his thoughts about the book and the advantages of using Qt, as well as the philosophy and insights of working with Qt progenitor Trolltech". You can listen to it here.
Gartner Webdev has published an interview with KDE's very own marketing renegade Wade Olson. Wade talks about KDE 4, what makes it special and what KDE's role in the software market is. He sheds some light on the user's point of view and discusses his vision about the way the computer and software industry is moving.
Prominent KDE developer Aaron Seigo appears on LugRadio, a fortnightly podcast based at the Linux User Group in Wolverhampton, England, to "give an update on KDE4". The show also has features on the AMD/ATi buyout and the will-they/won't-they of open-sourcing the drivers, Linux on laptops, and an update on LugRadio Live, to be held on 7th and 8th July this year in Wolverhampton, at which Aaron Seigo and fellow KDE hacker Ben Lamb are to speak. The podcast can be downloaded in MP3 and OGG format in high or low quality.
Linux.com has interviewed the developer of the Sonnet library, which is to replace KSpell 2 as the spell-checking library in KDE 4. The new library is to provide grammar checking, multilingual tools and possibly translation, dictionary and thesaurus functionality. The interview also discusses the new feature of language detection, which would eliminate the need to manually switch the spell-checker's language whenever a writer switches language in his writing.
The developers of Amarok, the KDE music player and collection manager, have given an interview to the Linux Link Tech Show, a weekly radio show produced by the Lehigh Valley LUG. Discussion is about Amarok's features, plans for KDE 4, and the main goals of the project. Get the show here; interview is 12 minutes in.
KDE and Business: AEI Interview
KDE Dot News publishes an interview Aaron Seigo conducted with Caleb Tennis, design engineer for Analytical Engineering, Inc design engineer and author of a book on Ruby/Qt. The discussion centres on AEI's use of, and relationship with, KDE.
Zack Rusin, KDE graphics and X developer, has appeared on the Linux Link Tech Show, discussing "the latest developments in X and how we can make best use of the up-coming new technologies in KDE". The episode is #125 and can be downloaded here; his bit is 27 minutes in.
KDE Dot News has posted an interview with Valgrind Author Julian Seward. The interview discusses (mostly) Valgrind's functionality and usefulness, OpenOffice's and KDE's use of it, and how the name was chosen.
Via OSNews, O'Reilly's LinuxDevCenter has an interview with the KDE developer Aaron Seigo, on the subject of KDE 4: Previewing KDE 4. As well as the new features of KDE 4 (Qt 4, Plasma, JavaScript-based widgets, etc), they also talk about the advantages of Scalable Vector Graphics and the possibility of porting KDE applications off KDE.