diff --git a/po/LINGUAS b/po/LINGUAS
index e69de29bb..527e861b3 100644
--- a/po/LINGUAS
+++ b/po/LINGUAS
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+fr
diff --git a/po/POTFILES.in b/po/POTFILES.in
index 7754f62c9..cceba6569 100644
--- a/po/POTFILES.in
+++ b/po/POTFILES.in
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 js/ui/panel.js
-js/ui/overlay.js
+js/ui/dash.js
+js/ui/overview.js
+js/ui/runDialog.js
 src/gdmuser/gdm-user.c
 src/shell-global.c
 src/shell-status-menu.c
diff --git a/po/fr.po b/po/fr.po
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..90c55f862
--- /dev/null
+++ b/po/fr.po
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+# French translations for gnome-shell package.
+# Copyright (C) 2009 THE gnome-shell'S COPYRIGHT HOLDER
+# This file is distributed under the same license as the gnome-shell package.
+# Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>, 2009.
+#
+msgid ""
+msgstr ""
+"Project-Id-Version: gnome-shell 0.0.1\n"
+"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: \n"
+"POT-Creation-Date: 2009-07-27 15:09-0400\n"
+"PO-Revision-Date: 2009-07-27 15:23-0400\n"
+"Last-Translator: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>\n"
+"Language-Team: French\n"
+"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
+"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
+"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
+"Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=(n > 1);\n"
+
+#: ../js/ui/panel.js:74
+msgid "Activities"
+msgstr "Activités"