diff --git a/util/environmentselectionwidget.cpp b/util/environmentselectionwidget.cpp
index e74ffc5d91..63fdebc504 100644
--- a/util/environmentselectionwidget.cpp
+++ b/util/environmentselectionwidget.cpp
@@ -1,56 +1,65 @@
 /* This file is part of KDevelop
 Copyright 2007 Dukju Ahn <dukjuahn@gmail.com>
 
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 modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
 License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
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 This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
 Library General Public License for more details.
 
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 along with this library; see the file COPYING.LIB.  If not, write to
 the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
 Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
 */
 #include "environmentselectionwidget.h"
 #include "environmentgrouplist.h"
 #include <ksettings/dispatcher.h>
 #include <kglobal.h>
 #include <interfaces/icore.h>
 #include <kcomponentdata.h>
 
 namespace KDevelop
 {
 
 class EnvironmentSelectionWidgetPrivate
 {
 };
 
 EnvironmentSelectionWidget::EnvironmentSelectionWidget( QWidget *parent )
     : KComboBox( parent ), d( new EnvironmentSelectionWidgetPrivate )
 {
+    // Taken from kdelibs/kdeui/dialogs/kconfigdialogmanager.cpp (no idea wether this is documented)
+    // Commits d44186bce4670d2985fb6aba8dba59bbd2c4c77a and 8edc1932ecc62370d9a31836dfa9b2bd0175a293
+    // introduced a regression in kdelibs to fix problems running some apps against Qt4.8. Unfortunately
+    // this fix breaks exactly our use-case, which is to store the text-value in kconfig instead of
+    // the index even though the combobox is editable. Since that change the special combobox-code in
+    // kconfigdialogmanager.cpp is run before check a user-property and hence our user-property is
+    // ignored. Setting this special kcfg_property to the name of our user-property again overrides
+    // the hardcoded combobox-behaviour - until the next one breaks things in kdelibs :|
+    setProperty("kcfg_property", QByteArray("currentProfile"));
 }
 
 EnvironmentSelectionWidget::~EnvironmentSelectionWidget()
 {
     delete d;
 }
 
 QString EnvironmentSelectionWidget::currentProfile() const
 {
     return currentText();
 }
 
 void EnvironmentSelectionWidget::setCurrentProfile( const QString& profile )
 {
     setCurrentItem( profile );
 }
 
 
 }
 
 #include "environmentselectionwidget.moc"