diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 57f3355fc8..75a0130e2e 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2006-02-20  Sven Neumann  <sven@gimp.org>
+
+	* libgimp/gimpplugin.c (gimp_plugin_icon_register): added a cast to
+	get rid of a compiler warning.
+
 2006-02-19  Tor Lillqvist  <tml@novell.com>
 
 	* configure.in: Don't think we have Mac OS X TWAIN if on Win32.
diff --git a/libgimp/gimpplugin.c b/libgimp/gimpplugin.c
index 8edf0deea0..94613654de 100644
--- a/libgimp/gimpplugin.c
+++ b/libgimp/gimpplugin.c
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ gimp_plugin_icon_register (const gchar  *procedure_name,
     {
     case GIMP_ICON_TYPE_STOCK_ID:
     case GIMP_ICON_TYPE_IMAGE_FILE:
-      icon_data_length = strlen (icon_data) + 1;
+      icon_data_length = strlen ((const gchar *) icon_data) + 1;
       break;
 
     case GIMP_ICON_TYPE_INLINE_PIXBUF: