> I'm running the latest KDE from kde-testing:
> kdebase-4.1.96-1.fc10.x86_64, etc
>
> I notice that every time I restart my desktop nm-applet and
> guidance-power-manager restart. I'm also running the kdenetwork applet and
> the battery manager plasmoid, and don't think I need these gnome applets,
> but I can't figure out how to get rid of them. I can quit them, but they
> always restart.
>
> There are no entries in ~/.kde/Autostart, nor are there any listings in
> the "Autostart" portion of systemsettings. Session management seems to be
> working in general, in that normal applications are restarted if and only
> if they were running when I logged out last. But these two applets seem
> impossible to kill.
>
> Am I right in thinking that I don't need them, and if so, how do I keep them
> from starting (short of removing them from my system altogether?).
Gnome autostart apps are in /etc/xdg/autostart.
Right. The autostarting situation is currently a mess. The preference
managers in KDE and GNOME both do the wrong thing. To fix it, copy
gnome-power-manager.desktop and nm-applet.desktop (and whatever else
you want to stop from autostarting in KDE) from /etc/xdg/autostart/
to ~/.config/autostart/. Then append the line "NotShowIn=KDE;" to
each file.
See
http://standards.freedesktop.org/autostart-spec/autostart-spec-latest.html
for an explanation of how this is supposed to work.