diff --git a/pkgs/desktops/gnome-2/default.nix b/pkgs/desktops/gnome-2/default.nix
index f12228a7991a..c41183f4b24f 100644
--- a/pkgs/desktops/gnome-2/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/desktops/gnome-2/default.nix
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ let overridden = set // overrides; set = with overridden; {
   gnomedocutils = self.gnome-doc-utils;
   gnomeicontheme = self.gnome_icon_theme;
   gnome_common = gnome-common;
-  gnome_desktop = gnome-desktop;
   inherit rarian;
 
 #### PLATFORM
@@ -80,8 +79,6 @@ let overridden = set // overrides; set = with overridden; {
   # Removed from recent GNOME releases, but still required
   scrollkeeper = callPackage ./desktop/scrollkeeper { };
 
-  gnome-desktop = callPackage ./desktop/gnome-desktop { };
-
   gtksourceview = callPackage ./desktop/gtksourceview { };
 
   gnome_icon_theme = callPackage ./desktop/gnome-icon-theme { };
diff --git a/pkgs/desktops/gnome-2/desktop/gnome-desktop/default.nix b/pkgs/desktops/gnome-2/desktop/gnome-desktop/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index b99f23555d38..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/desktops/gnome-2/desktop/gnome-desktop/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, python, libxml2Python, libxslt, which, libX11, gtk
-, intltool, GConf, gnome-doc-utils}:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "gnome-desktop-2.32.1";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = mirror://gnome/sources/gnome-desktop/2.32/gnome-desktop-2.32.1.tar.bz2;
-    sha256 = "17bkng6ay37n3492lr9wpb49kms6gh554rn9gbjs27zygvvfrjsm";
-  };
-
-  configureFlags = "--disable-scrollkeeper";
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
-  buildInputs = [ python libxml2Python libxslt which libX11 gtk
-                  intltool GConf gnome-doc-utils ];
-}