Some of you may know of "smxi" which is a set of administration scripts for Debian going back a number of years. Originating from the sidux project, smxi is well-known and repected among Debian (particularly testing/sid) users.
I recently requested on smxi forum
http://techpatterns.com/forums/about2131-10.html
for kdm-trinity to be added to the list of supported display managers. The scripts autodetect the default DM so it can stop/start it when nececcary.
The admin was happy to do so, however it did not work as expected because of TDE naming inconsistencies and the DM executable being in other than /usr/bin
$ which kdm /opt/trinity/bin/kdm
$ ls /etc/init.d | grep kdm kdm-trinity
$ cat /etc/X11/default-display-manager /opt/trinity/bin/kdm
I would like to draw attention to this, as I am sure TDE would be more widely accepted if more general standards were followed (however, I know the team is already working in this area)