Gauvain and Daniele for the plugins you are going to work on from now please do the following in addition to normal tasks: make sure that the installed .desktop file (in /usr/share/applications) contains the following entry as the last line X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=package where package is replaced by the gettext domain of the package, and is most of the times the name of the executable it installs. That is usually the GETTEXT_DOMAIN variable in the Makefile in the po/ directory. look at any of the recently uploaded changes by Martin Pitt . or $grep X-Ubuntu /usr/share/applications/*desktop in a relatively recent dapper in other words look at the basename of the .mo files the package installs. This is needed so that after dapper is released (but even until then) applications that parse desktop files such as panels, menus filemanagers, can use translations which are not inside the desktop file, but provided separately in /usr/share/locale. So when translations are made in rosetta and language packs get updated the desktop files themselves do not need to be touched. This needs the said parsing applications to know about this entry. Gnome is patched in ubuntu and I may do this for xfce before dapper since it doesn't sound hard. But even so, for the apps we install (thunar, mousepad etc) having the entries there makes the gnome menu be able to use their translations. The existing packages and already uploaded plugins I'll take care for as I upload other changes, but for new packages please provide this from the start thanks Jani