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KDE 4 Development Platform
Fedora 8 includes KDE 4.0 (beta) development libraries. The following new packages are provided: Use these packages to develop, build and run KDE 4 applications within KDE 3 or any other desktop environment.
 * : KDE 4 libraries
 * : KDE 4 PIM libraries
 * : KDE 4 core runtime files

The  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  package, which is based on KDE 3 and can be safely installed alongside.

These packages are designed to: In order to achieve this, Fedora KDE SIG members made 2 changes to the  packages: These changes should be completely transparent to the vast majority of KDE 4 applications that use to build, since  has been patched to match these changes.
 * comply with the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS), and
 * be completely safe to install in parallel with KDE 3, including the  packages.
 * The library symlinks are installed to  or   depending on system architecture.
 * The  and   tools have been renamed   and , respectively.

Note that  does not include the KDE 4 Desktop package   and its components such as Plasma and KWin version 4. The  package is still too incomplete and unstable for daily use and would conflict with KDE 3.