> Are you building with Autotools or CMake?

Both, depending on the module.

> 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.

Yes, my master build script (and the script I wrote to create the individual patches) searches the entire module for that string:

find $MODULE.new -type f -exec sed -i 's|share/applications/kde/|share/applications/tde/|g' {} \;

Darrell