On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 01:36:24PM +0100, Chusslove Illich wrote: > In particular for (2), the reader of .desktop files would have to find MO > files itself, it couldn't use bindtextdomain() directly and just fire away > gettext() calls. > well, yes. but we are planning the future here. it would surprise me if the gettext people refused to adopt a standard widely adpoted by the desktops (which can nicely wrap the spec from the beginning).