diff --git a/src/kpart/test/CMakeLists.txt b/src/kpart/test/CMakeLists.txt
index 6ac0a29..ae7f360 100644
--- a/src/kpart/test/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/kpart/test/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ set(kparttest_SRCS
 	kparttest.cpp
 )
 
+add_subdirectory(po)
+
 kde4_add_executable(kparttest ${kparttest_SRCS})
 
 target_link_libraries(kparttest ${KDE4_KDEUI_LIBS} ${KDE4_KPARTS_LIBS})
diff --git a/src/kpart/test/po/CMakeLists.txt b/src/kpart/test/po/CMakeLists.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..63b5f28
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/kpart/test/po/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+# Copyright (C) 2008 by Volker Lanz <vl@fidra.de>
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+# at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program; if not, write to the
+# Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+# 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
+
+FILE(GLOB PO_FILES *.po)
+
+ADD_TRANSLATIONS(kparttest ${PO_FILES})
+
diff --git a/src/kpart/test/po/de.po b/src/kpart/test/po/de.po
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ebc2d37
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/kpart/test/po/de.po
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+# Copyright (C) 2009
+# This file is distributed under the same license as the kparttest package.
+#
+# Volker Lanz <vl@fidra.de>, 2009.
+msgid ""
+msgstr ""
+"Project-Id-Version: kparttest_de\n"
+"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=50231&atid=459007\n"
+"POT-Creation-Date: 2009-04-23 09:37+0200\n"
+"PO-Revision-Date: 2009-04-23 09:38+0200\n"
+"Last-Translator: Volker Lanz <vl@fidra.de>\n"
+"Language-Team: German <kde-i18n-de@kde.org>\n"
+"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
+"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
+"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
+"X-Generator: Lokalize 0.3\n"
+"Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=n != 1;\n"
+
+#: main.cpp:31
+msgid "KDE Partition Manager KPart"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: main.cpp:32
+msgid "A test application for KDE Partition Manager's KPart."
+msgstr "Eine Testanwendung für den KPart vom KDE Partitionsmanager."
+
+#: main.cpp:34
+msgid "Copyright (c) 2008 Volker Lanz"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: rc.cpp:1
+msgctxt "NAME OF TRANSLATORS"
+msgid "Your names"
+msgstr "Volker Lanz"
+
+#: rc.cpp:2
+msgctxt "EMAIL OF TRANSLATORS"
+msgid "Your emails"
+msgstr "vl@fidra.de"
+
diff --git a/src/kpart/test/po/kparttest.pot b/src/kpart/test/po/kparttest.pot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8124483
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/kpart/test/po/kparttest.pot
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE.
+# Copyright (C) YEAR THE PACKAGE'S COPYRIGHT HOLDER
+# This file is distributed under the same license as the PACKAGE package.
+# FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, YEAR.
+#
+#, fuzzy
+msgid ""
+msgstr ""
+"Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n"
+"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?"
+"group_id=50231&atid=459007\n"
+"POT-Creation-Date: 2009-04-23 09:37+0200\n"
+"PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
+"Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
+"Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL@li.org>\n"
+"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
+"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=CHARSET\n"
+"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
+
+#: main.cpp:31
+msgid "KDE Partition Manager KPart"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: main.cpp:32
+msgid "A test application for KDE Partition Manager's KPart."
+msgstr ""
+
+#: main.cpp:34
+msgid "Copyright (c) 2008 Volker Lanz"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: rc.cpp:1
+msgctxt "NAME OF TRANSLATORS"
+msgid "Your names"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: rc.cpp:2
+msgctxt "EMAIL OF TRANSLATORS"
+msgid "Your emails"
+msgstr ""
diff --git a/src/kpart/test/po/messages.sh b/src/kpart/test/po/messages.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..f44169c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/kpart/test/po/messages.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+BASEDIR=".." # root of translatable sources
+PROJECT="kparttest" # project name
+BUGADDR="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=50231&atid=459007" # MSGID-Bugs
+WDIR=`pwd` # working dir
+EXTRACTRC="/usr/lib/kde4/bin/extractrc" # path to KDE4 extractrc (the KDE3 version silently fails)
+
+echo "Preparing rc files"
+cd ${BASEDIR}
+
+# we use simple sorting to make sure the lines do not jump around too much from system to system
+find . -name '*.rc' -o -name '*.ui' -o -name '*.kcfg' | sort > ${WDIR}/rcfiles.list
+
+xargs --arg-file=${WDIR}/rcfiles.list ${EXTRACTRC} > ${WDIR}/rc.cpp
+# additional string for KAboutData
+echo 'i18nc("NAME OF TRANSLATORS","Your names");' >> ${WDIR}/rc.cpp
+echo 'i18nc("EMAIL OF TRANSLATORS","Your emails");' >> ${WDIR}/rc.cpp
+cd ${WDIR}
+echo "Done preparing rc files"
+
+ 
+echo "Extracting messages"
+cd ${BASEDIR}
+# see above on sorting
+find . -name '*.cpp' -o -name '*.h' -o -name '*.c' | sort > ${WDIR}/infiles.list
+echo "rc.cpp" >> ${WDIR}/infiles.list
+cd ${WDIR}
+xgettext --from-code=UTF-8 -C -kde -ci18n -ki18n:1 -ki18nc:1c,2 -ki18np:1,2 -ki18ncp:1c,2,3 -ktr2i18n:1 \
+-kI18N_NOOP:1 -kI18N_NOOP2:1c,2 -kaliasLocale -kki18n:1 -kki18nc:1c,2 -kki18np:1,2 -kki18ncp:1c,2,3 \
+--msgid-bugs-address="${BUGADDR}" \
+--files-from=infiles.list -D ${BASEDIR} -D ${WDIR} -o ${PROJECT}.pot || { echo "error while calling xgettext. aborting."; exit 1; }
+echo "Done extracting messages"
+
+echo "Merging translations"
+catalogs=`find . -name '*.po'`
+for cat in $catalogs; do
+    echo $cat
+    msgmerge -o $cat.new $cat ${PROJECT}.pot
+    mv $cat.new $cat
+done
+echo "Done merging translations"
+
+echo "Cleaning up"
+cd ${WDIR}
+rm rcfiles.list
+rm infiles.list
+rm rc.cpp
+echo "Done"
+