> > I would be grateful for somebody shedding light on
> this and where in the source code that is configured.
> 
> For me: same thing with amarokrc krunnerrc and kwriterc.
> 
> It happens with a lot of different files elsewhere.

You have a krunnerrc config file? Has your TDE profile directory been contaminated by KDE4? Or perhaps you migrated a contaminated KDE3 profile to Trinity? I don't have any such file for any of my KDE3/TDE user accounts.

Darrell