diff --git a/fix-optflags.patch b/fix-optflags.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 238176d..0000000
--- a/fix-optflags.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- transmission-2.11/qt/qtr.pro.orig	2010-10-17 02:14:40.000000000 +0200
-+++ transmission-2.11/qt/qtr.pro	2010-10-20 21:55:19.000000000 +0200
-@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
- man.path = /share/man/man1/
- man.files = transmission-qt.1
- 
--CONFIG += qt qdbus thread debug link_pkgconfig
-+CONFIG += qt qdbus thread release link_pkgconfig
- QT += network
- PKGCONFIG = fontconfig libcurl openssl libevent
- 
diff --git a/transmission-daemon-systemd b/transmission-daemon-systemd
index c0ac6c2..6743c06 100644
--- a/transmission-daemon-systemd
+++ b/transmission-daemon-systemd
@@ -1,13 +1,10 @@
-# To customize, copy this file to /etc/systemd/system and edit there
-
 [Unit]
 Description=Transmission BT Client headless
 After=syslog.target network.target
 
 [Service]
 User=transmission
-ExecStart=/usr/bin/transmission-daemon -f -T --blocklist -g /var/lib/transmission/.config/transmission
-StandardError=syslog
+ExecStart=/usr/bin/transmission-daemon -f --blocklist -g /var/lib/transmission/.config/transmission
 
 [Install]
 WantedBy=multi-user.target
diff --git a/transmission-qt.desktop b/transmission-qt.desktop
deleted file mode 100644
index 836abf3..0000000
--- a/transmission-qt.desktop
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-
-[Desktop Entry]
-Name=Qtransmission Bittorrent Client
-GenericName=BitTorrent Client
-Comment=Download and share files over BitTorrent
-Exec=transmission-qt %F
-Icon=transmission
-Terminal=false
-Type=Application
-MimeType=application/x-bittorrent;
-Categories=Network;FileTransfer;P2P;Qt;
diff --git a/transmission.spec b/transmission.spec
index a6dc7ad..3d42f3c 100644
--- a/transmission.spec
+++ b/transmission.spec
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Name:           transmission
-Version:        2.75
+Version:        2.76
 Release:        1%{?dist}
 Summary:        A lightweight GTK+ BitTorrent client
 
@@ -8,9 +8,8 @@ Group:          Applications/Internet
 License:        MIT and GPLv2
 URL:            http://www.transmissionbt.com
 Source0:        http://download.transmissionbt.com/files/transmission-%{version}.tar.xz
-Source1:        transmission-qt.desktop
 # systemd unit definition
-Source2:        transmission-daemon-systemd
+Source1:        transmission-daemon-systemd
 BuildRequires:  openssl-devel >= 0.9.4
 BuildRequires:  glib2-devel >= 2.32.0
 BuildRequires:  gtk3-devel >= 3.2.0
@@ -22,8 +21,6 @@ BuildRequires:  libevent-devel >= 2.0.10
 BuildRequires:  desktop-file-utils
 BuildRequires:  gettext intltool
 BuildRequires:  qt4-devel
-# this modification applies to the Qt qtr.pro file
-Patch1:         fix-optflags.patch
 Requires: transmission-cli
 Requires: transmission-gtk
 
@@ -90,7 +87,6 @@ exit 0
 
 %prep
 %setup -q 
-%patch1 -p1
 
 iconv --from=ISO-8859-1 --to=UTF-8 AUTHORS > AUTHORS.new
 mv AUTHORS.new AUTHORS
@@ -103,27 +99,25 @@ mv NEWS.new NEWS
 make %{?_smp_mflags}
 
 pushd qt
-qmake-qt4 qtr.pro
+qmake-qt4 QMAKE_LFLAGS="$RPM_LD_FLAGS" qtr.pro
 make %{?_smp_mflags}
 popd
 
 
 %install
 mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_unitdir}
-
-install -m0644 %{SOURCE2} %{buildroot}%{_unitdir}/transmission-daemon.service
-
+install -m0644 %{SOURCE1} %{buildroot}%{_unitdir}/transmission-daemon.service
 mkdir -p %{buildroot}/var/lib/transmission
-
-make install DESTDIR=%{buildroot}
-
+%make_install
 make install INSTALL_ROOT=%{buildroot}%{_prefix} -C qt
 
 %find_lang %{name}-gtk
 
 desktop-file-validate %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/applications/%{name}-gtk.desktop
-desktop-file-install --dir=%{buildroot}%{_datadir}/applications/ %{SOURCE1}
-
+desktop-file-install \
+                --dir=%{buildroot}%{_datadir}/applications/  \
+                  qt/%{name}-qt.desktop
+                
 
 %post common
 touch --no-create %{_datadir}/icons/hicolor || :
@@ -206,6 +200,13 @@ update-desktop-database > /dev/null 2>&1 || :
 %doc %{_mandir}/man1/transmission-qt.*
 
 %changelog
+* Sat Jan 19 2013 Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@fedoraproject.org> - 2.76-1
+- upstream release 2.76
+- https://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/Changes#version-2.76
+- use rpm ld_flags for qt build. resolves rhbz#868502
+- use upstream transmission-qt.desktop file. resolves rhbz#799673
+- remove -T parameter from the systemd file. resolves rhz#823220
+
 * Sat Dec 15 2012 Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@fedoraproject.org> - 2.75-1
 - upstream release 2.75
 - https://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/Changes#version-2.75