diff --git a/x11-packages/gnome-desktop3/build.sh b/x11-packages/gnome-desktop3/build.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..97653d54b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/x11-packages/gnome-desktop3/build.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-desktop
+TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Utility library for loading .desktop files"
+TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="GPL-2.0, LGPL-2.0"
+TERMUX_PKG_MAINTAINER="@termux"
+_MAJOR_VERSION=41
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=${_MAJOR_VERSION}.6
+TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-desktop/${_MAJOR_VERSION}/gnome-desktop-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.xz
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=8b3d942ae2ece55c1c9bbd87e7c9550f6ab9d441ac73ae54aab0c3ef621a388b
+TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="gdk-pixbuf, glib, gsettings-desktop-schemas, gtk3, iso-codes, libcairo, libxkbcommon, xkeyboard-config"
+TERMUX_PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="fontconfig"
+TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="
+-Dgnome_distributor=Termux
+-Ddesktop_docs=false
+-Ddebug_tools=false
+"
+
+termux_step_pre_configure() {
+	export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$TERMUX_PREFIX/share/pkgconfig
+}
+
+termux_step_post_massage() {
+	local _GUARD_FILE="lib/libgnome-desktop-3.so"
+	if [ ! -e "${_GUARD_FILE}" ]; then
+		termux_error_exit "Error: file ${_GUARD_FILE} not found."
+	fi
+}
diff --git a/x11-packages/gnome-desktop3/libgnome-desktop-meson.build.patch b/x11-packages/gnome-desktop3/libgnome-desktop-meson.build.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..98da2fad72
--- /dev/null
+++ b/x11-packages/gnome-desktop3/libgnome-desktop-meson.build.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+--- a/libgnome-desktop/meson.build
++++ b/libgnome-desktop/meson.build
+@@ -108,17 +108,6 @@
+   link_with: libgnome_desktop
+ )
+ 
+-gnome.generate_gir(libgnome_desktop,
+-  sources: introspection_sources + libgnome_desktop_headers,
+-  export_packages: 'gnome-desktop-3.0',
+-  namespace: 'GnomeDesktop',
+-  nsversion: '3.0',
+-  includes: ['GObject-2.0', 'Gtk-3.0', 'GDesktopEnums-3.0'],
+-  extra_args: '-DGNOME_DESKTOP_USE_UNSTABLE_API',
+-  identifier_prefix: 'Gnome',
+-  symbol_prefix: 'gnome',
+-  install: true
+-)
+ 
+ desktop_pc = pkg.generate(
+   libraries: libgnome_desktop,