>> 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