Hi, a lot of ideas and comments about the problems we have with gettext have appeared in this thread (among them a few nice ones), but I want you to recognize that we will stay with gettext until something better is developed. It makes no sense to create a gimp-specific solution to a problem all larger GNU apps are facing and for 1.2 it's definitely too late for any changes in this area at all. So I suggest you search the web if there are people already working on this or you start a new project to create the ultimate solution to all problems gettext has. We will be very glad to use this for the next major version of The GIMP. Salut, Sven PS: In the meantime there's still lots of work to do for the translators. Check this: http://sven.gimp.org/1.1/i18n.html