diff --git a/srcpkgs/volumeicon/patches/locale.patch b/srcpkgs/volumeicon/patches/locale.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5ed00f1b9c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/volumeicon/patches/locale.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+Index: configure
+===================================================================
+--- configure.orig
++++ configure
+@@ -5950,7 +5950,7 @@ fi
+ 	    ;;
+ 	    *)
+-	    CATOBJEXT=.mo
+-            DATADIRNAME=lib
++	    CATOBJEXT=.gmo
++            DATADIRNAME=share
+ 	    ;;
+ 	    esac
+ fi
diff --git a/srcpkgs/volumeicon/patches/notify.patch b/srcpkgs/volumeicon/patches/notify.patch
index dbcf7f4d700..7da67899194 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/volumeicon/patches/notify.patch
+++ b/srcpkgs/volumeicon/patches/notify.patch
@@ -1,22 +1,13 @@
-From 78a9c23775ebe12d3f3be93c0798144a6e732d90 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: John Lindgren <john.lindgren@aol.com>
-Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 20:50:46 -0500
-Subject: [PATCH] Add missing space in NOTIFY_CFLAGS.
-
----
- configure.ac | 2 +-
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git configure.ac configure.ac
-index 6ad78d5..c8b72bd 100644
---- configure.ac
-+++ configure.ac
-@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ fi
- if test "x${notify}" = xyes; then
- # Check for libnotify
- PKG_CHECK_MODULES([NOTIFY], [libnotify >= 0.5.0])
--NOTIFY_CFLAGS+="-DCOMPILEWITH_NOTIFY"
-+NOTIFY_CFLAGS+=" -DCOMPILEWITH_NOTIFY"
- AC_SUBST(NOTIFY_CFLAGS)
- AC_SUBST(NOTIFY_LIBS)
+Index: configure
+===================================================================
+--- configure.orig
++++ configure
+@@ -6644,7 +6644,7 @@ else
+ $as_echo "yes" >&6; }
+ 
+ fi
+-NOTIFY_CFLAGS+="-DCOMPILEWITH_NOTIFY"
++NOTIFY_CFLAGS+=" -DCOMPILEWITH_NOTIFY "
+ 
+ 
  fi