diff --git a/capplets/appearance/ChangeLog b/capplets/appearance/ChangeLog
index 6ae116beb..dbe145ef8 100644
--- a/capplets/appearance/ChangeLog
+++ b/capplets/appearance/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2008-11-20  Jens Granseuer  <jensgr@gmx.net>
+
+	Patch by: Maxim Ermilov <zaspire@rambler.ru>
+
+	* gnome-wp-xml.c: (gnome_wp_xml_get_bool): use g_ascii_strcasecmp
+	instead of the deprecated g_strcasecmp (bug #560424)
+
 2008-11-09  Kjartan Maraas  <kmaraas@gnome.org>
 
 	* appearance-main.c: (init_appearance_data):
diff --git a/capplets/appearance/gnome-wp-xml.c b/capplets/appearance/gnome-wp-xml.c
index e15df882d..10b7f9238 100644
--- a/capplets/appearance/gnome-wp-xml.c
+++ b/capplets/appearance/gnome-wp-xml.c
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ static gboolean gnome_wp_xml_get_bool (const xmlNode * parent,
 
   prop = xmlGetProp ((xmlNode *) parent, (xmlChar*)prop_name);
   if (prop != NULL) {
-    if (!g_strcasecmp ((gchar *)prop, "true") || !g_strcasecmp ((gchar *)prop, "1")) {
+    if (!g_ascii_strcasecmp ((gchar *)prop, "true") || !g_ascii_strcasecmp ((gchar *)prop, "1")) {
       ret_val = TRUE;
     } else {
       ret_val = FALSE;