fiferboy: I agree that this is what is in the .desktop file but I can't help thinking that there must be an API to turn this into something more meaningful and that it is probably to do with the huge amount of osso_ locale packages that get installed for each of the pre-installed applications (they put .mo files in /usr/share/locale/<LOCALE>/LC_MESSAGES ). Sorry I am not a c programmer so I can't second guess any more than that.