>> I am fairly certain that what you are looking for is in the >> file cmake/modules/TDESetupPaths.cmake, specifically the line >> which sets XDG_APPS_INSTALL_DIR >> >> tde-config is generate from tdecore/tde-config.cpp.cmake, >> which uses >> XDG_APPS_INSTALL_DIR as defined during the build process. > >> There is a second hardcode for the Autotools build system >> in admin/acinclude.m4.in, line 535. It looks like this: >> xdg_appsdir='\${datadir}/applications/kde' > > > Yes, I have both of those locations covered in my master build script > snippet. I just generated individual patches for each module. The tdelibs > patch looks like this: > > diff -urN tdelibs/admin/acinclude.m4.in tdelibs.new/admin/acinclude.m4.in > --- tdelibs/admin/acinclude.m4.in 2012-05-10 15:54:53.000000000 -0500 > +++ tdelibs.new/admin/acinclude.m4.in 2012-05-29 13:12:09.413139614 -0500 > @@ -532,7 +532,7 @@ > kde_widgetdir='\${libdir}/trinity/plugins/designer' > fi > if test -z "$xdg_appsdir"; then > - xdg_appsdir='\${datadir}/applications/kde' > + xdg_appsdir='\${datadir}/applications/tde' > fi > if test -z "$xdg_menudir"; then > xdg_menudir='\${sysconfdir}/xdg/menus' > diff -urN tdelibs/cmake/modules/TDESetupPaths.cmake > tdelibs.new/cmake/modules/TDESetupPaths.cmake > --- tdelibs/cmake/modules/TDESetupPaths.cmake 2012-05-10 > 15:54:52.000000000 -0500 > +++ tdelibs.new/cmake/modules/TDESetupPaths.cmake 2012-05-29 > 13:12:09.840143049 -0500 > @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ > _tde_internal_setup_path( INFO_INSTALL_DIR > "${SHARE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/info" "The info install dir > (default ${SHARE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/info)" ) > > _tde_internal_setup_path( XDG_MENU_INSTALL_DIR > "${SYSCONF_INSTALL_DIR}/xdg/menus" "The XDG menus dir" ) > - _tde_internal_setup_path( XDG_APPS_INSTALL_DIR > "${SHARE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/applications/kde" "The XDG apps dir" ) > + _tde_internal_setup_path( XDG_APPS_INSTALL_DIR > "${SHARE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/applications/tde" "The XDG apps dir" ) > _tde_internal_setup_path( XDG_DIRECTORY_INSTALL_DIR > "${SHARE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/desktop-directories" "The XDG directory" ) > _tde_internal_setup_path( XDG_MIME_INSTALL_DIR > "${SHARE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/mime/packages" "The install dir for the > xdg mimetypes" ) > > > > Darrell Are you building with Autotools or CMake? It might be a good idea to search in the /<TDE prefix>/bin and /<TDE prefix>/lib directories for the text string "applications/kde" to see which binary or library contains the hardcoded string. This will narrow the search down considerably. Tim