> For most applications, moving ~/.kde to ~/.trinity 

Doesn't the startkde script try to do this?

> and replacing all
> instances of .kde with .trinity in the ~/.trinity folder
> will suffice. 

Is there an automated method for doing this?

> There are a few "gotchas" to be aware of (listed somewhat
> poorly on the
> Etherpad), but they do not come up very frequently in
> practice.

Which etherpad?

Darrell