Documentation Development Beat/KDE4DevelopmentPlatform
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KDE 4 Development Platform
Fedora 8 includes KDE 4.0 (beta) development libraries. The following new packages are provided:
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kdelibs4: KDE 4 libraries -
kdepimlibs: KDE 4 PIM libraries -
kdebase4: KDE 4 core runtime files
Use these packages to develop, build and run KDE 4 applications within KDE 3 or any other desktop environment.
The kdebase4 package also includes a beta version of the Dolphin file manager as a technology preview. As this is a beta version, some issues may still be present. If you need a stable version of Dolphin, please install the d3lphin package, which is based on KDE 3 and can be safely installed alongside kdebase4.
These packages are designed to:
- comply with the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS), and
- be completely safe to install in parallel with KDE 3, including the
-develpackages.
In order to achieve this, Fedora KDE SIG members made 2 changes to the -devel packages:
- The library symlinks are installed to
/usr/lib/kde4/develor/usr/lib64/kde4/develdepending on system architecture. - The
kconfig_compilerandmakekdewidgetstools have been renamedkconfig_compiler4andmakekdewidgets4, respectively.
These changes should be completely transparent to the vast majority of KDE 4 applications that use cmake
to build, since FindKDE4Internal.cmake has been patched to
match these changes.
Note that kdebase4 does not include the KDE 4 Desktop package kdebase-workspace and its components such as Plasma and KWin version 4. The kdebase-workspace package is still too incomplete and unstable for daily use and would conflict with KDE 3.
