diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index a0d48bf..aac5712 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -71,7 +71,10 @@ add_subdirectory( client )
 add_subdirectory( domino )
 add_subdirectory( dominoConfig )
 
-tde_conditional_add_subdirectory( BUILD_TRANSLATIONS translations )
+
+##### other data ################################
+
+tde_conditional_add_project_translations( BUILD_TRANSLATIONS )
 
 
 ##### write configure files
diff --git a/translations/CMakeLists.txt b/translations/CMakeLists.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 42b186a..0000000
--- a/translations/CMakeLists.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-tde_auto_add_subdirectories()
diff --git a/translations/messages/CMakeLists.txt b/translations/messages/CMakeLists.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 75c89f8..0000000
--- a/translations/messages/CMakeLists.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-file( GLOB_RECURSE po_files RELATIVE ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR} *.po )
-string( REGEX REPLACE "[ \r\n\t]+" ";" _linguas "$ENV{LINGUAS}" )
-
-foreach( _po ${po_files} )
-  get_filename_component( _lang ${_po} NAME_WE )
-  if( "${_linguas}" MATCHES "^;*$" OR ";${_linguas};" MATCHES ";${_lang};" )
-    if( "${_po}" MATCHES "^([^/]*)/.*" )
-      string( REGEX REPLACE "^([^/]*)/.*" "\\1" _component "${_po}" )
-    else( )
-      set( _component "${PROJECT_NAME}" )
-    endif( )
-    tde_create_translation( FILES ${_po} LANG ${_lang} OUTPUT_NAME ${_component} )
-  endif( )
-endforeach( )
diff --git a/translations/messages/twin_domino_config/twin_domino_config.pot b/translations/messages/twin_domino_config/twin_domino_config.pot
deleted file mode 100644
index 5d2f2b6..0000000
--- a/translations/messages/twin_domino_config/twin_domino_config.pot
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,84 +0,0 @@
-# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE.
-# FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, YEAR.
-#
-#, fuzzy
-msgid ""
-msgstr ""
-"Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n"
-"POT-Creation-Date: 2020-07-07 18:45+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=UTF-8\n"
-"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
-
-#. Instead of a literal translation, add your name to the end of the list (separated by a comma).
-#, ignore-inconsistent
-msgid ""
-"_: NAME OF TRANSLATORS\n"
-"Your names"
-msgstr ""
-
-#. Instead of a literal translation, add your email to the end of the list (separated by a comma).
-#, ignore-inconsistent
-msgid ""
-"_: EMAIL OF TRANSLATORS\n"
-"Your emails"
-msgstr ""
-
-#: config.cpp:56
-msgid "Custom border color"
-msgstr ""
-
-#: config.cpp:61
-msgid "Custom button color"
-msgstr ""
-
-#: config.cpp:66
-msgid "Custom button icon color"
-msgstr ""
-
-#: config.cpp:71
-msgid "Custom gradient colors"
-msgstr ""
-
-#: config.cpp:76
-msgid "Top gradient color"
-msgstr ""
-
-#: config.cpp:78
-msgid "Bottom gradient color"
-msgstr ""
-
-#: config.cpp:81
-msgid "Show inactive buttons"
-msgstr ""
-
-#: config.cpp:82
-msgid "Show button icons"
-msgstr ""
-
-#: config.cpp:83
-msgid "Dark window frame"
-msgstr ""
-
-#: config.cpp:90
-msgid "Button contour colors:"
-msgstr ""
-
-#: config.cpp:98
-msgid "Standard color:"
-msgstr ""
-
-#: config.cpp:101
-msgid "Mouseover color:"
-msgstr ""
-
-#: config.cpp:103
-msgid "Pressed color:"
-msgstr ""
-
-#: config.cpp:106
-msgid "Use domino style contour colors"
-msgstr ""