For now I would at least like to see 1) the KControl Lilo editor supported and 2) the qgrubeditor added to Trinity.
While reading the responses I just remembered a KDE app called KSysV. That app is part of the kdeadmin package. Perhaps then managing startup services and daemons might not be that huge of a challenge.
To my knowledge KSysV does not work with BSD style init scripts, but should work with most other distros. The tool needs some polish. If some developers join the team perhaps they can look at adding that polish and even modifying or forking the tool for BSD style startup scripts.
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That would be a good starting point.
Also note that certain distributions may not even be able to do what is requested. For example Upstart, which is the "new" Ubuntu SysV replacement as of a couple releases ago, does not support the disabling of any startup services as of Lucid. (!).
Tim