diff --git a/tdecore/tdeconfigbase.cpp b/tdecore/tdeconfigbase.cpp
index a3b15185b..e8d384dbe 100644
--- a/tdecore/tdeconfigbase.cpp
+++ b/tdecore/tdeconfigbase.cpp
@@ -1178,6 +1178,13 @@ void TDEConfigBase::writePathEntry( const char *pKey, const TQString & path,
    writeEntry(pKey, translatePath(path), bPersistent, bGlobal, bNLS, true);
 }
 
+void TDEConfigBase::writePathEntry( const char *pKey, const TQString & path,
+                                  bool bPersistent, bool bGlobal,
+                                  bool bNLS, bool expand)
+{
+   writeEntry(pKey, translatePath(path), bPersistent, bGlobal, bNLS, expand);
+}
+
 void TDEConfigBase::writePathEntry ( const TQString& pKey, const TQStringList &list,
                                char sep , bool bPersistent,
                                bool bGlobal, bool bNLS )
diff --git a/tdecore/tdeconfigbase.h b/tdecore/tdeconfigbase.h
index 1166703ce..a1ddbb4d3 100644
--- a/tdecore/tdeconfigbase.h
+++ b/tdecore/tdeconfigbase.h
@@ -1576,6 +1576,29 @@ public:
                        bool bPersistent = true, bool bGlobal = false,
                        bool bNLS = false );
 
+  /**
+   * Writes a file path.
+   *
+   * It is checked whether the path is located under $HOME. If so the
+   * path is written out with the user's home-directory replaced with
+   * $HOME. The path should be read back with readPathEntry()
+   *
+   * @param pKey The key to write.
+   * @param path The path to write.
+   * @param bPersistent If @p bPersistent is false, the entry's dirty
+   * flag will not be set and thus the entry will not be written to
+   * disk at deletion time.
+   * @param bGlobal     If @p bGlobal is true, the pair is not saved to the
+   *  application specific config file, but to the global KDE config file.
+   * @param bNLS        If @p bNLS is true, the locale tag is added to the key
+   *  when writing it back.
+   * @param expand      If @p expand is true, environment variables will be
+   * expanded on read.
+   */
+  void writePathEntry( const char *pKey, const TQString & path,
+                       bool bPersistent, bool bGlobal,
+                       bool bNLS, bool expand );
+
   /**
    * writePathEntry() overridden to accept a list of paths (strings).
    *