diff --git a/data/trader.desktop.in b/data/trader.desktop.in
index 79f5dd5..84bd585 100644
--- a/data/trader.desktop.in
+++ b/data/trader.desktop.in
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 # $Id$
 
 # This file provides a translated desktop entry for Star Traders and
-# conforms to the Desktop Entry Specification v1.1.
+# conforms to the Desktop Entry Specification v1.5.
 #
 # This file is distributed under the same licence as Star Traders itself:
 # the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later.
@@ -24,10 +24,6 @@ Comment=Play Star Traders, a simple game of interstellar trading
 # TRANSLATORS: A list of keywords describing Star Traders.  By all means
 # add your own keywords!
 Keywords=game;interstellar;trading;strategy;
-# TRANSLATORS: This string is the name of the icon to use.  The Desktop
-# Entry Specification states it is translatable, but unless you provide a
-# matching icon, please leave it as "trader": this will use trader.svg
-# and the various trader.png files in the data source code directory.
 Icon=trader
 Exec=trader
 TryExec=trader
diff --git a/lib/obsolete-strings.c b/lib/obsolete-strings.c
index bbe4ebe..e20a910 100644
--- a/lib/obsolete-strings.c
+++ b/lib/obsolete-strings.c
@@ -33,6 +33,24 @@
 */
 
 
+/************************************************************************
+*                      From data/trader.desktop.in                      *
+************************************************************************/
+
+const char *trader_desktop_strings[] = {
+    /* TRANSLATORS: Older versions of the GNU Gettext library utilities
+       treat the Icon value in data/trader.desktop.in as a translatable
+       string.  That string, the name of the icon to use, is defined here
+       for those older versions of xgettext(1).  Unless you provide a
+       matching icon, please leave it as "trader": this will use
+       trader.svg and the various trader.png files in the data source
+       code directory. */
+    N_("trader"),
+
+    ""
+};
+
+
 /************************************************************************
 *                   From GNU C Library posix/getopt.c                   *
 ************************************************************************/