diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 70408cc83..1a9aec838 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2008-10-21  Emmanuele Bassi  <ebassi@linux.intel.com>
+
+	Bug 1197 - Missing const for clutter_init_with_args *
+
+	* clutter/clutter-main.[ch] (clutter_init_with_args): Constify
+	the string parameters. (Owen Taylor)
+
 2008-10-20  Emmanuele Bassi  <ebassi@linux.intel.com>
 
 	* configure.ac: Use gmodule-no-export-2.0, not gmodule-2.0,
diff --git a/clutter/clutter-main.c b/clutter/clutter-main.c
index ffd1cb01c..ef0187ede 100644
--- a/clutter/clutter-main.c
+++ b/clutter/clutter-main.c
@@ -1371,9 +1371,9 @@ clutter_get_option_group_without_init (void)
 ClutterInitError
 clutter_init_with_args (int            *argc,
                         char         ***argv,
-                        char           *parameter_string,
+                        const char     *parameter_string,
                         GOptionEntry   *entries,
-                        char           *translation_domain,
+                        const char     *translation_domain,
                         GError        **error)
 {
   GOptionContext *context;
diff --git a/clutter/clutter-main.h b/clutter/clutter-main.h
index 81a4f8c12..eeef5a273 100644
--- a/clutter/clutter-main.h
+++ b/clutter/clutter-main.h
@@ -84,9 +84,9 @@ ClutterInitError clutter_init             (int          *argc,
                                            char       ***argv);
 ClutterInitError clutter_init_with_args   (int          *argc,
                                            char       ***argv,
-                                           char         *parameter_string,
+                                           const char   *parameter_string,
                                            GOptionEntry *entries,
-                                           char         *translation_domain,
+                                           const char   *translation_domain,
                                            GError      **error);
 GOptionGroup *   clutter_get_option_group (void);
 GOptionGroup *   clutter_get_option_group_without_init (void);