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Well, was a little beyond my plans, but the base move are done in exactly my 
planned time, Friday yesterday.

My expectation was have KDE 3 base and kdm3 worrking until yesterday, but i 
could go beyond. Pratically whole main kde3 applications are moved to 
/opt/kde3, kdm3 is back and we have kdm 4 too.
Many kudos to neoclust that took care of keeping kde4 updating during the 
transitions and help in some small pieces of kde3 specs.

I worked in an idea of have a kde3 easy to compile, and enabled to run kde4 
apps, and vice-versa.

The results:
- KDE 3 got more consistency in compilation - The whole kde3-macros plan and 
changes in way of configure make find some issues in compilations which even 
kde3 not been the main now, make we have a better buildsystem and quality of 
packages.

- KDE 4 was updated to 4.1 post alpha 1. Alpha 1 is 4.0.71, we're now building 
and working with 4.0.73

- KDM - Package kdm install the kde4 version, and have the priority. If for 
some reason you want have the kde3 version, just urpmi kdm3 or kde3-kdm and 
urpme kdm.

- Menus are duplicated in kde4 for now, since i'm not focused in make a proper 
kde3/4 separation. A interesting thing can be noted if you use alt-f2 in kde4, 
and have same application in two versions. like gwenview. When you type, 
system identifies to you the both versions.

- KDE4 starts kdeinit from kde3 too if exists, which make all yours autostart 
features from previous release works, and make easy way to run kde3 apps over 
kde4 seamless

As i was clear in the beginning, i was not focused on upgrade issues *now*, 
Danilo and the rest of qa team will deal with this later in kde3. I will be 
focusing since now in stabilize kde4 as possible and help upstream to make it.

For some special guys:
Yes, you can report issues now. I will be sure that at least Danilo and Sergio 
will be reading this ones.

So far, so good, thanks for the patience of others ones..

-- 
Helio Chissini de Castro
Mandriva Research and Development



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