Carsten Haitzler

Carsten Haitzler ( born November 29, 1975 in Abeokuta, Nigeria ) is an Australian- German software developer and the initiator of the Enlightenment project. He studied at the University of New South Wales, where in 1997 he received a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science ) received. He is currently an employee of the company Samsung and lives in Seoul.

Nicknamed Rasterman he presented the 1997 Enlightenment X window manager for UNIX / Linux as a hack of the famous Window Manager FVWM ago. Carsten Haitzler regarded as Benevolent Dictator for Life ( LMA, dt benevolent dictator for life) of the project.

In August 1999, it was included in the list of the top 50 programmers in the Linux / Open Source Carsten Haitzler by the U.S. Linux magazine.

Carsten Haitzler created to work on the Enlightenment project two important and basic libraries that are now used in other projects. These libraries are the graphics library Imlib and their successors Imlib2 that are used among other things in the GNOME project, and the integrated sound server Esound, which is also used in the GNOME project.

In 2002 he began the redevelopment of the window manager and thus created a complete framework (EFL - Enlightenment Foundation Library), which can be used similar to the Gtk and the Qt Framework for the windows and desktop presentation as well as for the widgets ( window units ). In addition, a single bond is currently being created.

In addition, he has worked on some smaller projects. For example, at an XFree86 configuration utility or at the memprof application.