diff --git a/conf/okular.kcfg b/conf/okular.kcfg
index ac82028c7..8bfddb75e 100644
--- a/conf/okular.kcfg
+++ b/conf/okular.kcfg
@@ -255,6 +255,17 @@
                   QDomElement toolElement = toolDescription.toElement();
                   if ( toolElement.tagName() == "tool" )
                   {
+                      // Translate strings
+                      toolElement.setAttribute( "name", i18n( toolElement.attribute("name").toUtf8() ) );
+                      QDomNode tooltip = toolElement.elementsByTagName( "tooltip" ).item( 0 );
+                      if ( tooltip.isElement() )
+                      {
+                          QDomElement trTooltip = doc.createElement( "tooltip" );
+                          QString trTooltipStr = i18nc( "Annotation tool",  tooltip.toElement().text().toUtf8() );
+                          trTooltip.appendChild( doc.createTextNode( trTooltipStr ) );
+                          toolElement.replaceChild( tooltip, trTooltip );
+                      }
+
                       QDomDocument temp;
                       temp.appendChild( temp.importNode( toolElement, true) );
                       // add each <tool>...</tool> as XML string
diff --git a/conf/settings.kcfgc b/conf/settings.kcfgc
index 9f2109ff2..ef7b5f261 100644
--- a/conf/settings.kcfgc
+++ b/conf/settings.kcfgc
@@ -6,5 +6,5 @@ Mutators=true
 Singleton=true
 Visibility=OKULAR_EXPORT
 IncludeFiles=core/okular_export.h, settings_core.h
-SourceIncludeFiles=kstandarddirs.h,qdom.h
+SourceIncludeFiles=klocalizedstring.h,kstandarddirs.h,qdom.h
 MemberVariables=dpointer
diff --git a/ui/pageviewannotator.cpp b/ui/pageviewannotator.cpp
index f53931243..977fd78d0 100644
--- a/ui/pageviewannotator.cpp
+++ b/ui/pageviewannotator.cpp
@@ -645,7 +645,7 @@ void PageViewAnnotator::reparseConfig()
         {
             AnnotationToolItem item;
             item.id = toolElement.attribute("id").toInt();
-            item.text = i18n( toolElement.attribute( "name" ).toUtf8() );
+            item.text = toolElement.attribute( "name" );
             item.pixmap = toolElement.attribute("pixmap");
             QDomNode shortcutNode = toolElement.elementsByTagName( "shortcut" ).item( 0 );
             if ( shortcutNode.isElement() )
@@ -962,7 +962,7 @@ void PageViewAnnotator::slotToolSelected( int toolID )
             {
                 const QString tip = toolSubElement.text();
                 if ( !tip.isEmpty() )
-                    m_pageView->displayMessage( i18nc( "Annotation tool", tip.toUtf8() ), QString(), PageViewMessage::Annotation );
+                    m_pageView->displayMessage( tip, QString(), PageViewMessage::Annotation );
             }
         }