Personally I’d expect a theme supporting i18n that includes theme-options in the adminpanel to support i18n in there too.
Consistency is something that should not be underestimated as it creates a feeling. If you see that a car has a nice green coat of varnish, you’d expect that green color to show up somewhere in the interior too.

Giving the admins a consistent naming for the bookmarks in their own language would be nice.

I am curious as to your opinion on something.

Should I I18Nise the name of the bookmarks used for the menu? It makes no difference to the user, but would let other language users name it according to their language in the admin screen.

Any thoughts?

The moment I saw your name in my e-mail field I kicked myself because I knew what you were going to say. I intended to do it and it slipped my mind when I got engrossed in the type.

I will make sure everything I have done so far is i18n’d before I go any further.

Thanks for reminding me that I need to go back and see what everyone said was important to them when I asked the question.

could you make the theme i18n ready by default? It’s not that much work when you’re developing the theme and (at least I) would really appreciate it when translating the theme into german.