diff --git a/modules/TDEMacros.cmake b/modules/TDEMacros.cmake
index f395d9e..df68422 100644
--- a/modules/TDEMacros.cmake
+++ b/modules/TDEMacros.cmake
@@ -1664,6 +1664,12 @@ macro( tde_create_translated_desktop )
     file( GLOB _translations RELATIVE "${_po_dir}" "${_po_dir}/*.po" )
   endif( )
   if( _translations )
+
+    # prepare a full name for the target
+    get_filename_component( _target ${_src} ABSOLUTE )
+    file( RELATIVE_PATH _target "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}" "${_target}" )
+    string( REPLACE "/" "+" _target "${_target}-translated" )
+
     if( DESKTOP_MERGE_MSGFMT )
 
       # create LINGUAS file for msgfmt
@@ -1676,28 +1682,25 @@ macro( tde_create_translated_desktop )
         list( APPEND _keywords_arg "--keyword=\"${_keyword}\"" )
       endforeach( )
 
-      # merge translations
+      # merge translations command
       get_filename_component( _src ${_src} ABSOLUTE )
       add_custom_command(
         OUTPUT ${_out_name}
         COMMAND ${MSGFMT_EXECUTABLE} --desktop --template ${_src} -d ${_po_dir} -o ${_out_name} ${_keywords_arg}
         DEPENDS ${_src}
       )
-      add_custom_target( "${_out_name}-translated" ALL DEPENDS ${_out_name} )
-      install( FILES ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/${_out_name} DESTINATION ${_dest} )
 
       # cleanup LINGUAS file
       get_filename_component( _linguas_path "${_po_dir}/LINGUAS" ABSOLUTE )
       file( RELATIVE_PATH _linguas_path "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}" "${_linguas_path}" )
-      string( REPLACE "/" "+" _linguas_cleanup_target "${_linguas_path}" )
+      string( REPLACE "/" "+" _linguas_cleanup_target "${_linguas_path}-cleanup" )
       if( NOT TARGET ${_linguas_cleanup_target} )
         add_custom_target( ${_linguas_cleanup_target} ALL
           COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E remove ${_po_dir}/LINGUAS
           COMMENT "Cleanup ${_linguas_path} file..."
         )
-      endif( NOT TARGET ${_linguas_cleanup_target} )
-
-      add_dependencies( ${_linguas_cleanup_target} "${_out_name}-translated" )
+      endif( )
+      add_dependencies( ${_linguas_cleanup_target} "${_target}" )
 
     else( )
 
@@ -1707,16 +1710,19 @@ macro( tde_create_translated_desktop )
       string( REGEX REPLACE "(^|\n)${_keywords_match}=" "\\1_\\2=" _src_data "${_src_data}" )
       file( WRITE ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/${_out_name}.in "${_src_data}" )
 
-      # merge translations
+      # merge translations command
       add_custom_command(
         OUTPUT ${_out_name}
         COMMAND ${INTLTOOL_MERGE_EXECUTABLE} -d ${_po_dir} ${_out_name}.in ${_out_name}
         DEPENDS ${_src}
       )
-      add_custom_target( "${_out_name}-translated" ALL DEPENDS ${_out_name} )
-      install( FILES ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/${_out_name} DESTINATION ${_dest} )
 
     endif( )
+
+    # merge translations target
+    add_custom_target( "${_target}" ALL DEPENDS ${_out_name} )
+    install( FILES ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/${_out_name} DESTINATION ${_dest} )
+
   else( )
 
     # just install the original file without translations