Comment 2 for bug 1179029

I can confirm this for 13.04 as well.

As stated by the original poster, there are two separate issues involved:

1. The translation isn't being pulled at installation, so gnome-paint is 100 % untranslated by default;

2. Even after manually adding the translation file gnome_paint.mo to the system, a part of gnome-paint still remains untranslated. This part (the menu items under the header "Image" in the toolbar) are not translatable *at all* in the .po file.