diff --git a/extension.js b/extension.js
index 582da4b..cce46d2 100644
--- a/extension.js
+++ b/extension.js
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ const Tweener = imports.tweener.tweener;
 const Gio = imports.gi.Gio
 const Pango = imports.gi.Pango;
 const extension = imports.misc.extensionUtils.getCurrentExtension();
-const Utils = extension.imports.utils;
+const ExtensionUtils = imports.misc.extensionUtils;
 const Format = imports.format;
 const Gettext = imports.gettext.domain('applications-overview-tooltip');
 const _ = Gettext.gettext;
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ function init() {
 
 	// Translation init
 	String.prototype.format = Format.format;
-	Utils.initTranslations("applications-overview-tooltip");
+	ExtensionUtils.initTranslations("applications-overview-tooltip");
 
 }
 
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ function init() {
 function enable() {
 
 	// Settings access
-	_settings = Utils.getSettings();
+	_settings = ExtensionUtils.getSettings('org.gnome.shell.extensions.applications-overview-tooltip');
 	_applySettings();
 	_tooltips = new Array();
 
diff --git a/prefs.js b/prefs.js
index 86cfede..ceff0c5 100644
--- a/prefs.js
+++ b/prefs.js
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ const GObject = imports.gi.GObject;
 const Gtk = imports.gi.Gtk;
 const Gio = imports.gi.Gio;
 const Lang = imports.lang;
-const Me = imports.misc.extensionUtils.getCurrentExtension();
-const Utils = Me.imports.utils;
+const ExtensionUtils = imports.misc.extensionUtils;
+const Me = ExtensionUtils.getCurrentExtension();
 
 const Gettext = imports.gettext.domain('applications-overview-tooltip');
 const _ = Gettext.gettext;
@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ const _ = Gettext.gettext;
 let settings;
 
 function init() {
-	settings = Utils.getSettings(Me);
-	Utils.initTranslations("applications-overview-tooltip");
+	settings = ExtensionUtils.getSettings('org.gnome.shell.extensions.applications-overview-tooltip');
+	ExtensionUtils.initTranslations("applications-overview-tooltip");
 }
 
 function buildPrefsWidget(){
diff --git a/utils.js b/utils.js
deleted file mode 100644
index 8ac1589..0000000
--- a/utils.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,60 +0,0 @@
-const Gettext = imports.gettext;
-
-const Gio = imports.gi.Gio;
-
-const Config = imports.misc.config;
-const ExtensionUtils = imports.misc.extensionUtils;
-
-
-function getSettings() {
-	let extension = ExtensionUtils.getCurrentExtension();
-	let schema = 'org.gnome.shell.extensions.applications-overview-tooltip';
-
-	const GioSSS = Gio.SettingsSchemaSource;
-
-	// check if this extension was built with "make zip-file", and thus
-	// has the schema files in a subfolder
-	// otherwise assume that extension has been installed in the
-	// same prefix as gnome-shell (and therefore schemas are available
-	// in the standard folders)
-	let schemaDir = extension.dir.get_child('schemas');
-	let schemaSource;
-	if (schemaDir.query_exists(null)) {
-		schemaSource = GioSSS.new_from_directory(schemaDir.get_path(),
-				GioSSS.get_default(),
-				false);
-	} else {
-		schemaSource = GioSSS.get_default();
-	}
-
-	let schemaObj = schemaSource.lookup(schema, true);
-	if (!schemaObj) {
-		throw new Error('Schema ' + schema + ' could not be found for extension ' +
-				extension.metadata.uuid + '. Please check your installation.');
-	}
-
-	return new Gio.Settings({settings_schema: schemaObj});
-}
-
-/**
- * initTranslations:
- * @domain: (optional): the gettext domain to use
- *
- * Initialize Gettext to load translations from extensionsdir/locale.
- * If @domain is not provided, it will be taken from metadata['gettext-domain']
- */
-function initTranslations(domain) {
-	let extension = ExtensionUtils.getCurrentExtension();
-
-	domain = domain || extension.metadata['gettext-domain'];
-
-	// check if this extension was built with "make zip-file", and thus
-	// has the locale files in a subfolder
-	// otherwise assume that extension has been installed in the
-	// same prefix as gnome-shell
-	let localeDir = extension.dir.get_child('locale');
-	if (localeDir.query_exists(null))
-		Gettext.bindtextdomain(domain, localeDir.get_path());
-	else
-		Gettext.bindtextdomain(domain, Config.LOCALEDIR);
-}