diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 9bce50de8..53cfe8119 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -102,6 +102,8 @@ OPTION( WITH_KDE4_MENU_SUFFIX "Add [KDE4] tag to KDE4 menu items" OFF )
 OPTION( WITH_ASPELL "Enable aspell support" ${WITH_ALL_OPTIONS} )
 OPTION( WITH_HSPELL "Enable hspell support" ${WITH_ALL_OPTIONS} )
 
+OPTION( WITH_TDEICONLOADER_DEBUG "Enable debugging in TDEIconLoader class" OFF )
+
 
 ##### set PKG_CONFIG_PATH #######################
 
@@ -953,6 +955,13 @@ if( WITH_HSPELL )
 endif( WITH_HSPELL )
 
 
+##### enable TDEIconLoader debugging ############
+
+if ( WITH_TDEICONLOADER_DEBUG )
+  set ( TDEICONLOADER_DEBUG 1 )
+endif ( WITH_TDEICONLOADER_DEBUG )
+
+
 ##### write configure files #####################
 
 configure_file( config.h.cmake config.h )
diff --git a/config.h.cmake b/config.h.cmake
index d9703caa4..7dcd1ae1f 100644
--- a/config.h.cmake
+++ b/config.h.cmake
@@ -911,6 +911,9 @@
 /* Defined if compiling with old XDG standard support */
 #cmakedefine WITH_OLD_XDG_STD 1
 
+/* Defined if compiling with TDEIconLoader debugging */
+#cmakedefine TDEICONLOADER_DEBUG 1
+
 /* Define WORDS_BIGENDIAN to 1 if your processor stores words with the most
    significant byte first (like Motorola and SPARC, unlike Intel). */
 #if defined AC_APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD
diff --git a/tdecore/kiconloader.cpp b/tdecore/kiconloader.cpp
index 59f3e0646..df233cec1 100644
--- a/tdecore/kiconloader.cpp
+++ b/tdecore/kiconloader.cpp
@@ -109,9 +109,9 @@ struct TDEIconGroup
 // WARNING
 // Enabling this in production will cause a massive slowdown of (and a related memory leak in)
 // any application that creates and destroys large numbers of TDEIconLoader instances
-//#define KICONLOADER_CHECKS
+//#define TDEICONLOADER_DEBUG
 
-#ifdef KICONLOADER_CHECKS
+#ifdef TDEICONLOADER_DEBUG
 // Keep a list of recently created and destroyed TDEIconLoader instances in order
 // to detect bugs like #68528.
 struct TDEIconLoaderDebug
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ static TQValueList< TDEIconLoaderDebug > *kiconloaders;
 
 TDEIconLoader::TDEIconLoader(const TQString& _appname, TDEStandardDirs *_dirs)
 {
-#ifdef KICONLOADER_CHECKS
+#ifdef TDEICONLOADER_DEBUG
     if( kiconloaders == NULL )
         kiconloaders = new TQValueList< TDEIconLoaderDebug>();
     // check for the (very unlikely case) that new TDEIconLoader gets allocated
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ void TDEIconLoader::init( const TQString& _appname, TDEStandardDirs *_dirs )
 
 TDEIconLoader::~TDEIconLoader()
 {
-#ifdef KICONLOADER_CHECKS
+#ifdef TDEICONLOADER_DEBUG
     for( TQValueList< TDEIconLoaderDebug >::Iterator it = kiconloaders->begin();
          it != kiconloaders->end();
          ++it )
@@ -1233,7 +1233,7 @@ TDEIconFactory::TDEIconFactory( const TQString& iconName_P, TDEIcon::Group group
 
 TQPixmap* TDEIconFactory::createPixmap( const TQIconSet&, TQIconSet::Size, TQIconSet::Mode mode_P, TQIconSet::State )
     {
-#ifdef KICONLOADER_CHECKS
+#ifdef TDEICONLOADER_DEBUG
     bool found = false;
     for( TQValueList< TDEIconLoaderDebug >::Iterator it = kiconloaders->begin();
          it != kiconloaders->end();