=== modified file 'src/ui/dialog/aboutbox.cpp'
--- src/ui/dialog/aboutbox.cpp	2016-12-31 12:46:40 +0000
+++ src/ui/dialog/aboutbox.cpp	2017-01-26 15:53:38 +0000
@@ -166,16 +166,16 @@
        the `screens' directory.  Thus the translation of "about.svg" should be
        the filename of its translated version, e.g. about.zh.svg for Chinese.
 
-       N.B. about.svg changes once per release.  (We should probably rename
-       the original to about-0.40.svg etc. as soon as we have a translation.
-       If we do so, then add an item to release-checklist saying that the
-       string here should be changed.) */
+       Please don't translate the filename unless the translated picture exists. */
 
     // FIXME? INKSCAPE_SCREENSDIR and "about.svg" are in UTF-8, not the
     // native filename encoding... and the filename passed to sp_document_new
     // should be in UTF-*8..
 
     char *about=g_build_filename(INKSCAPE_SCREENSDIR, _("about.svg"), NULL);
+    if (!g_file_test (about, G_FILE_TEST_EXISTS)) {
+        about=g_build_filename(INKSCAPE_SCREENSDIR, "about.svg", NULL);
+    }
     SPDocument *doc=SPDocument::createNewDoc (about, TRUE);
     g_free(about);
     g_return_val_if_fail(doc != NULL, NULL);