Hi, I have thought about the problem a little more and there's one question that has not been addressed until now. How should the plugin now where its mo-file will be installed? If we want to stay with the existing procedure that the plug-in may be installed in a configured list of paths, it does IMHO not make sense to hardcode the path to the mo-file into the plugin so that it can register it together with its domain. The only solution I came with up until now is to have a configurable list of po-paths defaulting to the standard path for message catalogs $prefix/share/locale and to ~/gimp/locale. The core would then have to try to bindtextdomain() to all possible paths until success (or total failure if no message catalog was found). Is there another solution for this? Salut, Sven