--- kdelibs-3.0/kdecore/kstandarddirs.cpp~	Thu Apr 11 18:30:43 2002

+++ kdelibs-3.0/kdecore/kstandarddirs.cpp	Thu Apr 11 18:31:24 2002

@@ -238,8 +238,18 @@

     for (QStringList::ConstIterator it = candidates.begin();

 	 it != candidates.end(); it++)

-      if (exists(*it + filename))

-	return *it;

+    {

+      if ( QString::compare("exe", type) == 0 )

+      {

+	  if (exists_exe(*it + filename))

+	      return *it;

+      }

+      else

+      {

+          if (exists(*it + filename))

+	      return *it;

+      }

+    }

 #ifndef NDEBUG

     if(false && type != "locale")

@@ -247,6 +257,19 @@

 #endif

     return QString::null;

+}

+

+bool KStandardDirs::exists_exe(const QString &fullPath)

+{

+    struct stat buff;

+    if (access(QFile::encodeName(fullPath), X_OK) == 0 && stat( QFile::encodeName(fullPath), &buff ) == 0)

+	if (fullPath.at(fullPath.length() - 1) != '/') {

+	    if (S_ISREG( buff.st_mode ))

+		return true;

+	} else

+	    if (S_ISDIR( buff.st_mode ))

+		return true;

+    return false;

 }

 bool KStandardDirs::exists(const QString &fullPath)

--- kdelibs-3.0/kdecore/kstandarddirs.h~	Thu Apr 11 18:33:15 2002

+++ kdelibs-3.0/kdecore/kstandarddirs.h	Thu Apr 11 18:32:53 2002

@@ -494,6 +494,7 @@

 	 * faster than creating a QFileInfo first

 	 */

 	static bool exists(const QString &fullPath);

+	static bool exists_exe(const QString &fullPath);

  private: