diff --git a/README b/README
index 072643a..f20594c 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ If you start an application using the following command:
    or Qt4 application. It then sets the LD_PRELOAD environment
    variable to point to the approriate KGtk library.
 2. When the application now starts, it checks for the
-   KDE_SESSION_VERSION environment variable. If this is not set,
+   TDE_SESSION_VERSION environment variable. If this is not set,
    or is less than 4, then the KDE3 version of kdialogd is started,
    else the KDE4 version is started.
 3. When 'gimp' now tries to open a file dialog, the KGtk library