Comment 3 for bug 542068

I should probably open a new bug for this, but I'll mention it here for the record: the onboard.desktop file should also be marked for translation.

In any case, I think the part that will take more work is to rename the files to .desktop.in and make sure a) translations are extracted and b) the .desktop files are build. This will probably need to be done somewhere in debian'/rules. Marking strings for translation in both files is the easy part and can be done for both in one go.