diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index efa41ed0f3..882cdcd15c 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2006-07-05  Sven Neumann  <sven@gimp.org>
+
+	* app/gui/splash.c (splash_average_text_area): unset the test
+	strings after calculating the text color.
+
 2006-07-05  Sven Neumann  <sven@gimp.org>
 
 	* app/gui/themes.h (themes_get_theme_file): G_GNUC_NULL_TERMINATED.
diff --git a/app/gui/splash.c b/app/gui/splash.c
index 7b6c82ad4b..3d668987d6 100644
--- a/app/gui/splash.c
+++ b/app/gui/splash.c
@@ -385,6 +385,7 @@ splash_average_text_area (GimpSplash *splash,
   pixels       = gdk_pixbuf_get_pixels (pixbuf);
 
   splash_position_layouts (splash, "Short text", "Somewhat longer text", &area);
+  splash_position_layouts (splash, "", "", NULL);
 
   if (gdk_rectangle_intersect (&image, &area, &area))
     {