diff --git a/src/kmainwindow.h b/src/kmainwindow.h
--- a/src/kmainwindow.h
+++ b/src/kmainwindow.h
@@ -100,10 +100,6 @@
  * There are also kRestoreMainWindows convenience functions which
  * can do this for you and restore all your windows on next login.
  *
- * Note that KMainWindow uses KGlobal::ref() and KGlobal::deref() so that closing
- * the last mainwindow will quit the application unless there is still something
- * that holds a ref in KGlobal - like a KIO job, or a systray icon.
- *
  * @author Reginald Stadlbauer (reggie@kde.org) Stephan Kulow (coolo@kde.org), Matthias Ettrich (ettrich@kde.org), Chris Schlaeger (cs@kde.org), Sven Radej (radej@kde.org). Maintained by David Faure (faure@kde.org)
  */