diff --git a/src/main.cpp b/src/main.cpp
index ec10c612..bcd54ee9 100644
--- a/src/main.cpp
+++ b/src/main.cpp
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ extern "C" int Q_DECL_EXPORT kdemain(int argc, char *argv[])
                      i18nc("@title", "Terminal emulator"),
                      KAboutLicense::GPL_V2,
                      i18nc("@info:credit", "(c) 1997-2017, The Konsole Developers"),
-                     QStringLiteral(),
+                     QString(),
                      QStringLiteral("https://konsole.kde.org/"));
     fillAboutData(about);
 
diff --git a/src/tests/demo_konsolepart/src/main.cpp b/src/tests/demo_konsolepart/src/main.cpp
index 8467f487..451b8a05 100644
--- a/src/tests/demo_konsolepart/src/main.cpp
+++ b/src/tests/demo_konsolepart/src/main.cpp
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
                      i18nc("@title", "Terminal emulator"),
                      KAboutLicense::GPL_V2,
                      i18nc("@info:credit", "(c) 2017, The Konsole Developers"),
-                     QStringLiteral(),
+                     QString(),
                      QStringLiteral("https://konsole.kde.org/"));
 
     KAboutData::setApplicationData(about);