Hi, just do make my position clear: I was not critizing your decision. My feeling was just that we could have built a similar framework on available resources with substantial interest and a little effort. As long as it helps Gimp development I'm all for it. (That's why I pointed Dirk to your project). BTW: I think you should try to interact more with the core. This is in interest of both parties. Here are a few suggestions, that IMO will help to improve the situation for all of us: (1) Add an online version of the Libgimp documentation to your website. You might even want to help us to improve it further. The whole purpose of generating this documents was to help plugin developers. (2) Try to help us improving the documentation shipped with Gimp. For example I found an interesting document about plug-in i18n on your site . This is something we should add least mention in our documentation as a link. I plan to move some of the files in the docs directory into devel-docs and I'd love to get some updates / corrections / links from ypur part as this documentation is primary targeted to plugin developers. Salut, Sven PS: About that document at http://gimp-plug-ins.sourceforge.net/doc/i18n.html: I stronly encouryge you to ask plugin developers to call their textdomain gimp-<plugin-name> instead of only <plugin-name>. I even thought about forcing that naming convention when implementing "The i18n solution", but I guess it should work if we nicely ask people to use it. And you will want to add an explanation of the proper usage of gimp_plugin_add_domain() as soon as we have worked out the remaining issues.