Comment 9 for bug 438273

OK. So those translations are fetced from the .desktop files of each apps.

I'm testing this with the latest version of indicator-mesages and it does not work.

Also looking at the changelog I don't see anything mentioning this fix.
https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+source/indicator-messages/+changelog

Ted, is this problem fixed on you system ?

Cheers!