> > in Qt5 we have http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qstandardpaths.html#findExecutable . > > Is there something similar available in Qt 4.8, too? Can somebody point > > me to the proper static function? > > No, there isn't in Qt. That function existed in libkdecore during Qt 4 days. Thanks. KStandardDirs::findExe() does the job. -- Alexander