diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 44e4356df..5031ec688 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ DATADIR=/usr/share/plinth
 PYDIR=$(DATADIR)/python/plinth
 
 ## Catch-all targets
-default: config dirs template css docs
+default: config dirs css docs
 all: default
 
 predepend:
@@ -58,10 +58,6 @@ config: Makefile
 	@cat $< | python -c 'import re,sys;print re.sub("\s*([{};,:])\s*", "\\1", re.sub("/\*.*?\*/", "", re.sub("\s+", " ", sys.stdin.read())))' > $@
 css: $(COMPRESSED_CSS)
 
-template:
-	@$(MAKE) -s -C templates
-templates: template
-
 docs:
 	@$(MAKE) -s -C doc
 doc: docs
@@ -78,7 +74,6 @@ clean:
 	@find . -name "*.pyc" -exec rm {} \;
 	@find . -name "*.bak" -exec rm {} \;
 	@$(MAKE) -s -C doc clean
-	@$(MAKE) -s -C templates clean
 	rm -f plinth.config
 	rm -f predepend
 
diff --git a/doc/Makefile b/doc/Makefile
index adaf5e2f1..c45bdbc99 100644
--- a/doc/Makefile
+++ b/doc/Makefile
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ $(SOURCES):
 	@rm -f $@
 	@ln -s ../$(patsubst %.mdwn,%,$@) $@
 
-../TODO : $(TODO_SOURCES) ../*.py ../modules/*.py ../Makefile Makefile ../templates/Makefile
+../TODO : $(TODO_SOURCES) ../*.py ../modules/*.py ../Makefile Makefile
 	grep -ro --exclude=.git* --exclude=plinth.1 --exclude=*.tex --exclude=*.html \
 	     --exclude=README.mdwn --exclude=INSTALL.mdwn \
 	     --exclude=TODO.mdwn --exclude=COPYING.mdwn \
diff --git a/templates/Makefile b/templates/Makefile
deleted file mode 100644
index df1b31f48..000000000
--- a/templates/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-CHEETAH=cheetah
-TEMPLATES=$(wildcard *.tmpl)
-TEMPLATE_PYFILES := $(patsubst %.tmpl,%.py,$(TEMPLATES))
-
-## Catch-all tagets
-default: $(TEMPLATE_PYFILES)
-
-%.py: %.tmpl
-	$(CHEETAH) c $<
-templates: $(TEMPLATE_PYFILES)
-template: templates
-
-clean:
-	rm -rf .\#* \#* *.pyc *.bak
-	@rm -f $(TEMPLATE_PYFILES)
diff --git a/templates/__init__.py b/templates/__init__.py
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29bb..000000000