Will attempt to do this once some docs about using it on non auto* packages
appear.

1) create a file with one this like GETTEXT_PACKAGE=your_textdomain and place
it in the root and call it configure.in (this doesnt mean that you have to
use auto* or anything like that.

2) mkdir po/   

3) Create a file called POTFILES.in in po/ and add the .desktop.in in it/

4) Now run intltool-update --pot

5) Create a testing language, by copying your_textdomain.pot into the lang
file, like for instance 'cp footool.pot da.po', now update the language by
issuing 'intltool-update lang' ie. for Danish 'intltool-update da'

6) To create the .desktop file from the desktop.in file do the following:
intltool-merge -d -u PO_DIR filename.desktop.in filename.desktop, where po
dir is ../po if you for instance do this from src/

PLEASE IMPROVE THIS GUIDE!

Thanks, Kenneth
kenneth@gnu.org

Oops, please change this:

create a file with one this like GETTEXT_PACKAGE=your_textdomain 

to:

create a file with only this line: GETTEXT_PACKAGE=your_textdomain
(you could call your_textdomain for rhn_register in this case)