I am a Slackware user. I have a Devuan VM, primarily to observe TDE differences with Slackware and to test TDE interaction with other desktop environments (DEs).
In the VM when I log into a DE other than TDE, such as KDE, Cinnamon, MATE, Xfce, etc., none of the TDE packages populate the respective DE panel menu. The reason is that none of the environment variables are set to find TDE software installed to the non standard /opt/trinity directory. Variables such as $PATH, $PKG_CONFIG_PATH, and $TDEDIR, $TDEHOME, etc.
In Slackware I configure some /etc/profile.d scripts to modify these env. variables in a manner similar to starttde, but only if the user elects to include TDE variables in the environment.
For you Debian users, is there an "adopted" TDE approach to allow a user to easily configure the environment variables?
Thanks. :)