diff --git a/src/frontends/qt4/ui/PrefLanguageUi.ui b/src/frontends/qt4/ui/PrefLanguageUi.ui
index 89b68267de..67966c3375 100644
--- a/src/frontends/qt4/ui/PrefLanguageUi.ui
+++ b/src/frontends/qt4/ui/PrefLanguageUi.ui
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
      <item>
       <widget class="QLineEdit" name="languagePackageED" >
        <property name="toolTip" >
-        <string>Enter the command to load the language package (default: babel)</string>
+        <string>Enter the command to load the language package (default: \usepackage{babel})</string>
        </property>
       </widget>
      </item>