diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 4d9c2ff92..892ebed30 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+2008-01-04  Emmanuele Bassi  <ebassi@openedhand.com>
+
+	* clutter.symbols: Add clutter_actor_move_byu()
+	
+	* clutter/clutter-actor.h:
+	* clutter/clutter-actor.c:
+	(clutter_actor_move_by),
+	(clutter_actor_move_byu): Add a units-based variant of the
+	clutter_actor_move_by() function
+
 2008-01-02  Johan Bilien  <jobi@via.ecp.fr>
 
 	reviewed by: Emmanuele Bassi  <ebassi@openedhand.com>
diff --git a/clutter.symbols b/clutter.symbols
index 8e82a8102..e170ec1b7 100644
--- a/clutter.symbols
+++ b/clutter.symbols
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ clutter_actor_hide_all
 clutter_actor_lower
 clutter_actor_lower_bottom
 clutter_actor_move_by
+clutter_actor_move_byu
 clutter_actor_paint
 clutter_actor_pick
 clutter_actor_query_coords
diff --git a/clutter/clutter-actor.c b/clutter/clutter-actor.c
index 934781b6a..0928a6b85 100644
--- a/clutter/clutter-actor.c
+++ b/clutter/clutter-actor.c
@@ -2220,7 +2220,7 @@ clutter_actor_set_positionu (ClutterActor *self,
 }
 
 /**
- * clutter_actor_move_by
+ * clutter_actor_move_by:
  * @self: A #ClutterActor
  * @dx: Distance to move Actor on X axis.
  * @dy: Distance to move Actor on Y axis.
@@ -2234,19 +2234,39 @@ void
 clutter_actor_move_by (ClutterActor *self,
 		       gint          dx,
 		       gint          dy)
+{
+  g_return_if_fail (CLUTTER_IS_ACTOR (self));
+
+  clutter_actor_move_byu (self,
+                          CLUTTER_UNITS_FROM_DEVICE (dx),
+                          CLUTTER_UNITS_FROM_DEVICE (dy));
+}
+
+/**
+ * clutter_actor_move_byu:
+ * @self: A #ClutterActor
+ * @dx: Distance to move Actor on X axis, in #ClutterUnit<!-- -->s.
+ * @dy: Distance to move Actor on Y axis, in #ClutterUnit<!-- -->s.
+ *
+ * Moves an actor by specified distance relative to the current position.
+ *
+ * Since: 0.6
+ */
+void
+clutter_actor_move_byu (ClutterActor *self,
+                        ClutterUnit   dx,
+                        ClutterUnit   dy)
 {
   ClutterActorBox box;
-  gint32 dxu = CLUTTER_UNITS_FROM_INT (dx);
-  gint32 dyu = CLUTTER_UNITS_FROM_INT (dy);
 
   g_return_if_fail (CLUTTER_IS_ACTOR (self));
 
   clutter_actor_query_coords (self, &box);
 
-  box.x2 += dxu;
-  box.y2 += dyu;
-  box.x1 += dxu;
-  box.y1 += dyu;
+  box.x2 += dx;
+  box.y2 += dy;
+  box.x1 += dx;
+  box.y1 += dy;
 
   clutter_actor_request_coords (self, &box);
 }
diff --git a/clutter/clutter-actor.h b/clutter/clutter-actor.h
index 8b9e60bd8..413b4cf07 100644
--- a/clutter/clutter-actor.h
+++ b/clutter/clutter-actor.h
@@ -388,6 +388,9 @@ void                  clutter_actor_get_scale        (ClutterActor          *sel
 void                  clutter_actor_move_by                  (ClutterActor          *self,
                                                               gint                   dx,
                                                               gint                   dy);
+void                  clutter_actor_move_byu                 (ClutterActor          *self,
+                                                              ClutterUnit            dx,
+                                                              ClutterUnit            dy);
 
 void                  clutter_actor_get_vertices             (ClutterActor          *self,
 						              ClutterVertex          verts[4]);
diff --git a/doc/reference/ChangeLog b/doc/reference/ChangeLog
index 39aa33db7..2f144207b 100644
--- a/doc/reference/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/reference/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2008-01-04  Emmanuele Bassi  <ebassi@openedhand.com>
+
+	* clutter-sections.txt: Add clutter_actor_move_byu()
+
 2007-12-24  Emmanuele Bassi  <ebassi@openedhand.com>
 
 	* clutter-sections.txt: Add the units-based clip accessors
diff --git a/doc/reference/clutter-sections.txt b/doc/reference/clutter-sections.txt
index 1a4325dcb..9c1a2a647 100644
--- a/doc/reference/clutter-sections.txt
+++ b/doc/reference/clutter-sections.txt
@@ -386,6 +386,7 @@ clutter_actor_set_anchor_pointu
 clutter_actor_get_anchor_pointu
 clutter_actor_set_clipu
 clutter_actor_get_clipu
+clutter_actor_move_byu
 
 <SUBSECTION>
 clutter_actor_set_scalex