diff --git a/po/CMakeLists.txt b/po/CMakeLists.txt
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index 46fba83..0000000
--- a/po/CMakeLists.txt
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@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-# build translations if some are already available
-
-file( GLOB _srcs RELATIVE ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR} *.po )
-if( _srcs )
-  tde_create_translation( LANG auto OUTPUT_NAME ${PROJECT_NAME} )
-endif( )
diff --git a/po/de.po b/po/de.po
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index c2ae02b..0000000
--- a/po/de.po
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@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE.
-# FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, YEAR.
-#
-msgid ""
-msgstr ""
-"Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n"
-"POT-Creation-Date: 2018-12-11 17:49+0100\n"
-"PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
-"Last-Translator: Automatically generated\n"
-"Language-Team: none\n"
-"Language: de\n"
-"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
-"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
-"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
-
-#: _translatorinfo:1
-msgid ""
-"_: NAME OF TRANSLATORS\n"
-"Your names"
-msgstr ""
-
-#: _translatorinfo:2
-msgid ""
-"_: EMAIL OF TRANSLATORS\n"
-"Your emails"
-msgstr ""
-
-#: main.cpp:36
-msgid "A virtual keyboard for TDE"
-msgstr ""
-
-#: main.cpp:42
-msgid ""
-"Stand alone version for use with TDM or XDM. \n"
-"You should Add : HOME=/root kvkbd --loginhelper & to Xsetup to run in xdm/tdm"
-msgstr ""
-
-#: main.cpp:186
-msgid "kvkbd"
-msgstr ""
diff --git a/po/kvkbd.pot b/po/kvkbd.pot
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index ed74e1c..0000000
--- a/po/kvkbd.pot
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@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE.
-# FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, YEAR.
-#
-#, fuzzy
-msgid ""
-msgstr ""
-"Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n"
-"POT-Creation-Date: 2018-12-11 17:49+0100\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=UTF-8\n"
-"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
-
-#: _translatorinfo:1
-msgid ""
-"_: NAME OF TRANSLATORS\n"
-"Your names"
-msgstr ""
-
-#: _translatorinfo:2
-msgid ""
-"_: EMAIL OF TRANSLATORS\n"
-"Your emails"
-msgstr ""
-
-#: main.cpp:36
-msgid "A virtual keyboard for TDE"
-msgstr ""
-
-#: main.cpp:42
-msgid ""
-"Stand alone version for use with TDM or XDM. \n"
-"You should Add : HOME=/root kvkbd --loginhelper & to Xsetup to run in xdm/tdm"
-msgstr ""
-
-#: main.cpp:186
-msgid "kvkbd"
-msgstr ""