diff --git a/pkgs/desktops/gnome-3/core/gnome-settings-daemon/default.nix b/pkgs/desktops/gnome-3/core/gnome-settings-daemon/default.nix
index fdbf8c5277f2..99b66fc1fe72 100644
--- a/pkgs/desktops/gnome-3/core/gnome-settings-daemon/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/desktops/gnome-3/core/gnome-settings-daemon/default.nix
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-{ fetchurl, stdenv, pkgconfig, gnome3, intltool, glib, libnotify, lcms2, libXtst
-, libxkbfile, libpulseaudio, libcanberra-gtk3, upower, colord, libgweather, polkit
-, geoclue2, librsvg, xf86_input_wacom, udev, libgudev, libwacom, libxslt, libtool, networkmanager
-, docbook_xsl, docbook_xsl_ns, wrapGAppsHook, ibus, xkeyboard_config, tzdata }:
+{ fetchurl, substituteAll, stdenv, meson, ninja, pkgconfig, gnome3, perl, gettext, glib, libnotify, lcms2, libXtst
+, libxkbfile, libpulseaudio, alsaLib, libcanberra-gtk3, upower, colord, libgweather, polkit
+, geoclue2, librsvg, xf86_input_wacom, udev, libgudev, libwacom, libxslt, libxml2, networkmanager
+, docbook_xsl, wrapGAppsHook, ibus, xkeyboard_config, tzdata, nss }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "gnome-settings-daemon-${version}";
@@ -12,27 +12,46 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "1p3ccf4a4qbz73hqyx9i55hkp6l7c7la5kazqawcndl7bksywgny";
   };
 
-  passthru = {
-    updateScript = gnome3.updateScript { packageName = "gnome-settings-daemon"; attrPath = "gnome3.gnome-settings-daemon"; };
-  };
+  patches = [
+    (substituteAll {
+      src = ./fix-paths.patch;
+      inherit tzdata;
+    })
+  ];
 
   # fatal error: gio/gunixfdlist.h: No such file or directory
   NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = "-I${glib.dev}/include/gio-unix-2.0";
 
-  buildInputs = with gnome3;
-    [ intltool pkgconfig ibus gtk glib gsettings-desktop-schemas networkmanager
-      libnotify gnome-desktop lcms2 libXtst libxkbfile libpulseaudio
-      libcanberra-gtk3 upower colord libgweather xkeyboard_config
-      polkit geocode-glib geoclue2 librsvg xf86_input_wacom udev libgudev libwacom libxslt
-      libtool docbook_xsl docbook_xsl_ns wrapGAppsHook gnome-themes-standard ];
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ meson ninja pkgconfig perl gettext libxml2 libxslt docbook_xsl wrapGAppsHook ];
+
+  buildInputs = with gnome3; [
+    ibus gtk glib gsettings-desktop-schemas networkmanager
+    libnotify gnome-desktop lcms2 libXtst libxkbfile libpulseaudio alsaLib
+    libcanberra-gtk3 upower colord libgweather xkeyboard_config nss
+    polkit geocode-glib geoclue2 librsvg xf86_input_wacom udev libgudev libwacom
+  ];
+
+  mesonFlags = [
+    "-Dudev_dir=${placeholder "out"}/lib/udev"
+  ];
 
   postPatch = ''
-    substituteInPlace plugins/datetime/tz.h --replace /usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab ${tzdata}/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab
+    for f in gnome-settings-daemon/codegen.py plugins/power/gsd-power-constants-update.pl meson_post_install.py; do
+      chmod +x $f
+      patchShebangs $f
+    done
   '';
 
-  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
-    platforms = platforms.linux;
-    maintainers = gnome3.maintainers;
+  passthru = {
+    updateScript = gnome3.updateScript {
+      packageName = "gnome-settings-daemon";
+      attrPath = "gnome3.gnome-settings-daemon";
+    };
   };
 
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    license = licenses.gpl2Plus;
+    maintainers = gnome3.maintainers;
+    platforms = platforms.linux;
+  };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/desktops/gnome-3/core/gnome-settings-daemon/fix-paths.patch b/pkgs/desktops/gnome-3/core/gnome-settings-daemon/fix-paths.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2229302cab7c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/desktops/gnome-3/core/gnome-settings-daemon/fix-paths.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+--- a/plugins/datetime/tz.h
++++ b/plugins/datetime/tz.h
+@@ -27,11 +27,7 @@
+ 
+ #include <glib.h>
+ 
+-#ifndef __sun
+-#  define TZ_DATA_FILE "/usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab"
+-#else
+-#  define TZ_DATA_FILE "/usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/tab/zone_sun.tab"
+-#endif
++#define TZ_DATA_FILE "@tzdata@/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab"
+ 
+ typedef struct _TzDB TzDB;
+ typedef struct _TzLocation TzLocation;