>>Who upstream is making this problematic? Is this a Debian-only
>>issue? Is this only a packaging issue? Please explain more. What
>>exactly is needed to provide remedy?
>>
>>Trinity is recognized as an XDG desktop. Upstream, whoever they
>>might be, need to get on board. I doubt "upstream" has failed to
>>support other XDG recognized desktops. TDE != KDE. :)
>>
>>I created a tdelibs patch and am rebuilding now. I'll start
>>testing thereafter.
>
> I updated the patch by adding a -DWITH_OLD_XDG_STD configure option
> works great. No KDE4 apps autostart, no problems with desktop files
> in ~/.local/share/applications or $TDEDIRS.
>
> Should upstream problems continue then this patch seems like a fair
> compromise until those problems disappear.
>
> I have not tested by building tdelibs with -DWITH_OLD_XDG_STD,
> which retains the current dual behavior.
>
> Darrell

Go ahead and push; we'll see if anyone reports problems and I will set the
new WITH_OLD_XDG_STD flag on platforms with reported issues.

TiM