Merged.

(bzr r15369.1.18)

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/src/ui/dialog/aboutbox.cpp b/src/ui/dialog/aboutbox.cpp
index 8f0545e96..40b948a23 100644
--- a/src/ui/dialog/aboutbox.cpp
+++ b/src/ui/dialog/aboutbox.cpp
@@ -152,16 +152,16 @@ Gtk::Widget *build_splash_widget() {
        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);