Comment # 18 on bug 900863 from Karl Eichwalder

(In reply to Dominique Leuenberger from comment #17)
> Ok, there is something utterly wrong:
> 
> If I get gnome-control-center binaries from GNOME:Factory, then the .desktop
> file for gnome-sound-panel is properly translated.
> If I get the one for openSUSE:Factory or openSUSE:13.2, it is not.
> 
> Happy chasing I would say.

I'd say that's ok (at least for o:F).  On openSUSE/SUSE Linux those
translations are considered to be read with gettext from the .mo file coming
with desktop-translations*.

I think this worked in the past.  Maybe, a patch got lost?