diff --git a/srcpkgs/xdg-user-dirs-gtk/template b/srcpkgs/xdg-user-dirs-gtk/template
index e94fa235141..6564d9871ad 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/xdg-user-dirs-gtk/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/xdg-user-dirs-gtk/template
@@ -12,3 +12,9 @@ license="GPL-2.0-or-later"
 homepage="http://www.gnome.org"
 distfiles="${GNOME_SITE}/xdg-user-dirs-gtk/${version}/xdg-user-dirs-gtk-${version}.tar.xz"
 checksum=534bd563d3c0e3f8dcbf3578cb8ab0e49d3ba41c966d477c8af9438364121e7d
+
+post_patch() {
+       vsed -i -e 's/DATADIRNAME=lib/DATADIRNAME=share/' \
+               -e 's,localedir=.*eval echo.*,localedir=/usr/share/locale,' \
+               configure
+}