diff --git a/map-desktop-category.sh b/map-desktop-category.sh
index 124db27..7578aff 100644
--- a/map-desktop-category.sh
+++ b/map-desktop-category.sh
@@ -119,6 +119,9 @@ function mapCategory() {
 #Control Center Categories:
     ControlCenter-Personal|ControlCenter-Hardware|ControlCenter-LookAndFeel|ControlCenter-System)
        ret="X-SuSE-$in" ;;
+#XFCE Private Categories:
+    X-Xfce*)
+       ret="$in" ;;
 #special tags:
     Application|Qt|KDE|GTK|GNOME|Motif|ConsoleOnly|Shell|X-Red-*| \
     X-Ximian-*|X-GNOME-*|X-KDE-*|Settings|DesktopSettings|HardwareSettings| \
diff --git a/update-desktop-files.changes b/update-desktop-files.changes
index 403109b..4829023 100644
--- a/update-desktop-files.changes
+++ b/update-desktop-files.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Dec 23 20:21:47 UTC 2010 - gber@opensuse.org
+
+- do not strip X-Xfce* categories, xfce4-panel and xfce4-settings
+  rely on them
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Oct  8 18:33:29 CEST 2010 - vuntz@opensuse.org