Comment 1 for bug 865430

The strings are in .ini files, which need either inline translations, or a [Desktop Entry] group with X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain and listing the translatable Name, Description, Comment or GenericName key.
Having these keys under another group, as all the lenses do it now with the [Lens] group, won't work. See these glib patches:

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/oneiric/glib2.0/oneiric/view/head:/debian/patches/01_gettext-desktopfiles.patch
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/oneiric/glib2.0/oneiric/view/head:/debian/patches/02_gettext-desktopfiles-ubuntu.patch

The options thus seem to be:
- Resort to automatic translation exports and inline translations
- Move the translatable keys under the [Desktop Entry] group, and renaming the SearchHint key to one of those mentioned above.