<snip> > At this point I'm concluding that something in the code is hard-coded to > look for $PREFIX/share/applications/kde. I can't find anything obvious or > explicit. I've looked hard and am stumped. > > I would appreciate any help in this challenge. :) > > Thanks! > > Darrell Have you looked through the CMake files? There are a few places where CMake variables are written into TDE via autogenerated #defines. Other than that the class name you are probably looking for is KStandardDirs, as it stores all search directories. See http://trinitydesktop.org/docs/trinity/current/kdelibs/kdecore/html/classKStandardDirs.html for documentation. Tim